*on the way to Emerald Bay...

10 seconds later:

I love this picture! When your babies start to grow up, you get to hold their sleeping bodies less and less, and I savored the moment snuggling her up in this little nest on the floor.  She stayed asleep here on the boat for over an hour while the rest of us hiked up to the falls.  Ben stayed with her :)

Vera was a decent little trooper on the hike - only complaining that she was hot about a dozen times :)  I say that seriously - she usually isn't up for much of a hike, but she did really well!

Emerald Bay is so beautiful - huge tall trees, Tahoe granite everywhere, smell of the Sierras...

I love this picture of us in front of the Vikingsholm just after Edie woke up:

*anyone else get that "on the way to Emerald Bay" song stuck in their head?

*as a child I always hunkered down in the bow of the boat on the way to Emerald Bay, sure we were going to crash and die :)