4th of July Weekend

Our great friends invited us to their Tahoe cabin for the 4th of July (and the word cabin is used loosely here as the neighborhood had properties going for around 1 million +). We had such a great time and it reminded us that we need to visit Tahoe more often!

On the way up, we stopped in Auburn, about the cutest "Americana" town I have ever visited. Each shop decorated their front doors, there were flags on everyone and everywhere... it was the best. The town hosted...

 Tug O war...

Watermelon eating contests...

 Abraham Lincoln with a loudspeaker made out of a blender...

 Super cute tourists...

 A slicked down pole competition... what else?

 More watermelon! I love how they cut it like this!

A pancake breakfast that we devoured. It was a very memorable 4th of July morning. I'd love to host something like this sometime and invite the neighborhood.

 We then made our way up to the cabin, unpacked, distressed and just laid around, ate and got ready for some fireworks!

Steve, Emilie and I ended up being the only ones who made it down to the lake, but it was a great show! I've never seen fireworks over a lake before!!

 The next couple of days we lounged at the beach, swam, kayaked, biked, ate, jumped off piers, swam at one of their swanky country clubs...it was nice to say the least.

 We spent most of our time at the Tahoe/Donner lake, which is a nice change from the bigger lake- it definitely feels more relaxed.

 We found a little stream that emptied into the lake and went upstream to find the most amazing houses that had the river as their backyard- with each house having docks, boats, kayaks, canoes ready to jump in whenever they wanted. Super envious!

 We met up with some friends for an amazing rib/hamburger lunch..

 The girls/steve jumped off the pier into the freezing lake! I can't believe they did it!

 And, we were just lazy.

and cute :)