Month: September 2016

Shadowbrook Restaurant, Capitola, CA

9/17/2016

Megan found out about Shadowbrook while browsing through one of our CA guide books and it has been on our to do list for some time. They are famous for, among other things, a working cable car that lets you arrive in style or avoid the ‘arduous’ trek up the hill the restaurant is situated on after dinner. Initially we planned to visit for the big loan payoff celebration but with summer coming to an end and a bit of money still owed we decided to just make a reservation so that we could enjoy the sunset during our time there. As it turned out, I got a promotion at work the week of our reservation so we called this dinner a promotion celebration instead.

Overall it was a great experience. We showed up an hour early for drinks and a big pretzel with cheese in the bar by a fireplace before having dinner in the original fireplace room within the main part of the original restaurant.

 

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CME, Wilderness Medicine Conference, Tahoe, CA

8/8 – 8/13/2016

Megan is a PA, and along with the regular studying, journal reading, and YouTube toenail removal videos that she watches, she also has a CME requirement to stay on the bleeding edge of PA license holders. She also has a generous CME budget provided by her employer. So when a post card for a Wilderness Medicine Conference in Tahoe showed up in the mail, she signed up.

Using the budget provided by her employer, we booked a fancy hotel in Squaw Valley, home of the 1960 Winter Olympics. To start the trip, on Saturday afternoon we left Campbell and drove up to the Tahoe area for a night of camping and stargazing. There was a meteor shower going on, however it was a full moon so we didn’t get to see too much in the way of meteors. It was a nice night though, camping in the woods, and Megan and I both felt that was good to be back in the mountains. Strangely, there was an enormous number of bees everywhere we went and after a breakfast of scrambled egg and bacon and pudgy pies the bees cleaned up the dishes. We found out later that there was a sudden explosion in the number of bees town, partly due to the mild winter previously. I escaped unharmed, but Megan was stung in a vicious attack.

 

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