Keeping tradition

Last weekend I went to visit my mom in the Tahoe area to see a Shakespeare play, in our yearly tradition. Actually I think last year's was one of my blog posts. It's crazy to think it's been a year already.

As usual, the play was fantastic. We saw Taming of the Shrew. It was set in the traditional time, but there were all this misplaced references to pop-culture embedded in the story line. For example, Bianca was completely dressed in pink and wore white sunglasses. She answered her cell phone "Good morrow."

I think the stars are brighter when you are sitting in the sand on Lake Tahoe.

The great thing about that area is that at any given time, there are always people bike riding — whether it's road, bike or mountain — on the road. And most drivers, probably because they are bikers themselves, don't try to run you off the road like they do where I live.

We also took our own bike ride, on a windy trail that leads to a reservoir. The whole trip is about 30 miles, which isn't out of the realm of what I usually do. Maybe it was the wine we drank the night before, maybe it was that the last ten miles were all up hill, or maybe I'm out of biking shape, but I was exhausted afterwards. It was still fun. Mom and I played the movie game (like the name game but with movie titles) for about three hours.

Lessons learned: There aren't many movies that begin with "K."