The Rest of our Weekend

After going to church in Tahoe on Sunday morning and saying our good-byes to Mike and Beth, we drove an hour west to Loomis (near Sacramento) to visit Dan’s cousin, Mark Redford, and his family.  We just love Mark and Amy and were happy when they recently moved to Loomis from Arizona . . . . now they’re not too far from us!  We thought this was the perfect time to go visit them and check out their new place.  They had warned us that they live “in the country” and wow, were they right!  They bought a cute little house on some land, and it was so fun to see where they live.  We went on a walk to tour their property and surrounding area . . . . and to visit the buffalo!  Yes, the people that live on the property behind them raise buffalo.  We got up to the fence but couldn’t really see any buffalo because they were all over in the other pasture.  So Mark just yelled, “Hey Boss!” a few times, and sure enough they came over to see us.

Continuing our walk and crossing over the main water source for some houses up there (or at least up until a few years ago).  We hiked up a little hill for a cool view of Folsom Lake.

That’s their white house up on the hill.  They love having their own little lake!  Well, I guess they kind of share it with some other people, but it’s pretty much theirs.  Although Mark said it’s a lot of work to maintain it. 

Dan took James for a ride in the canoe.  He was loving it!

Swinging on the rope swing!

Sunday evening we had dinner, chatted, I got a baking lesson from Amy (homemade rolls and cinnamon rolls – yay!), and of course played games!  When they asked us what game we wanted to play and we said, “Have you guys heard of Dominion?” they looked at us like, “Uhhhh, yeah, we’ve heard of Dominion.”  And then Mark goes to the game closet and literally brings out like 8 huge boxes of Dominion games and expansion boxes.  Well, ok, then!  We had quite a few rounds of Dominion, playing with all kinds of new expansion packs. 

Monday we had fun checking out the area with Amy.  She took us to her aunt and uncle’s house which was gorgeous.  We drove around neighborhoods and picked out areas we wanted to live someday.  I LOVE driving around and checking out houses and neighborhoods . . . . Amy and I could have done that all day!  But we had kids in the car that were getting bored, so we got some treats at a cute little pastry shop and then over to Taylor’s in downtown Loomis for some seriously good milkshakes and headed to a park to let the kids play.  Mark was home from work in the afternoon so we played another round of Dominion before heading on home to Reno.  It was such a fun little visit!