The time since my last post has been adventure-filled. The Saturday before last I headed up to South Lake Tahoe for my first ride on the infamous Toad's Wild Ride. Rather than starting at Luther Pass we went to the top of Oneidas. The trail climbs quite a bit and then hits the Tahoe Rim Trail. We rode that trail for a bit before finally reaching the actual start of Toad's. It was good to finally complete this ride since it's been conspicuously missing from my list of trails I've ridden. It was fun, but I was disappointed. The erosion was extremely bad, making for a relatively slow ride down. Oh, well. Even with the slow ride I managed to get more bruised-up than on any ride previously.

Last week took me to Henderson and then Glendale. I went to Henderson on Wednesday with my boss for work stuff. After completing the work day, I cruised over to M&M's® World to get Chase some gear to match what we bought him last summer. I then met back up with the guys from work and we went to Wynn Las Vegas and ate at Okada. It was okay. My food was good, but I don't know exactly what it was. It was short ribs with ginger. It was called something...else. Dessert was funny. For $10 I got "fruit soup". It was basically a tiny pellet of chopped fruit - strawberry, kiwi, melon, etc. - with sorbet on top. They then poured something that appeared to be Sprite over it. Weird.

We returned to the hotel (we stayed at the Luxor) and then I headed out on my own to get supplies at Walgreen's. I didn't want to check luggage on the plane, so I had to get some toothpaste, etc. I also took some time looking for a cache, which I never found. After a brief and disappointing search I decided to go find a virtual, which I knew could be found. I lost track of time and ended up stumbling into my hotel room around 12:30a. It wouldn't have been a big deal except that I had to be up by 5:30a the next morning for our flight to Glendale.

Glendale was fairly uneventful except that we went to a place called Gaucho's Village Brazilian Churrascaria "Steak House". The general idea is that you have a thing in front of you on the table that looks loosely like a salt shaker. The top is red and the bottom is green. You turn it over so that green is up and that means that some guy will come to your table every couple of minutes and put meat on your plate. The meat may be sausage, chicken, steak, etc. You don't know what your getting until the guy shows up with meat. It always seems to be different, too. It may be different types of chicken, steak or sausage each time around. Once you've decided that you can't eat any more meat you turn the shaker over so that red is up and the meat stops. It was good, but weird.

I came back Thursday and things have thankfully been fairly uneventful since. Chase continues to be a perfect baby. He's happy and easy-going. The next post should be dedicated to Chase...