Note: this blog should have been released earlier, as i finished it a few days before my birthday, but i forgot/got lazy and didn’t. This entry is about the month of june for me, well, half of it.
Why? Because i didn’t want to prolong this blog anymore than i already have, so, i’m splitting this blog into two parts, this first part is about our visit to nevada, specifically lake tahoe, right by reno.
and second, which will be out in hopefully 2-3 days, (Or even 1 day!) will be about me getting braces. And my birthday. And if anything else happens in the next 1-2 days then whatever happens THEN.
So, at the end of may, from the 30th to the 2nd of june, we went to nevada, physically reno, even more specifically the city of lake tahoe, which is named after the lake itself for some reason, maybe it was the same reason why greenland is called that even though its icey, because they wanted to trick people into thinking it was a lake when in reality it was a city!
but lake tahoe is really a lake and, the city is right by the the lake, which means that is actually a true name, and if it was meant to make people not come near it, then the name lake tahoe would be a very bad name to make people not come, because a lake has water in it! duh. So of course someone is going to come to it, maybe the cowboys who named it that way and thought that the natives would be so stupid that they would be all like “uh, it's just like, like, who cares, nobody's going to live here”, when in reality they’ll come to the river they’ve lived on for longer than the colonisers and they see villagers building buildings there, and they are like “WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE DOING WITH OUR LAKE?”
Anyways, we went on this trip, not for the lake however, but because, like, 99.99% of our family, lives there (Actually, most of them life in california and colorado.), my uncle robert, and his sons and my grandparents from my dad’s side (Who shall be named as Nana And Papa from here on) were there for the vacation, unlike other vacations we’ve had, it was pretty short compared to some of our other vacations with the family, so this will be a pretty short post.
On the first day:
We arrived at nevada after a long plane trip, we drove to the town where my grandmother and father on my mom’s side live (who i call gb and papa john). We went there, and talked, and we had dinner at a restaurant which had some damn good pancakes and had a cowboy theme, like any other restaurant in reno, and a casino machine area, because its reno.
After the dinner, we went to lake tahoe and met the family who were actually there for the trip, and we were staying in a hotel, that was also a casino! yep, its bottom floor was a big ass casino, and one of toppest floors was a dinner, which is weird, because dinners are usually at the bottom! I actually really hate gambling and casinos, their sleazy, and they are usually filled with the smell of burnt cigar, which i hate, both of which leads to self-destruction and misery, thankfully, we didn’t go into the casino area that much, the dinner was were we would normally meet, and eat breakfast and dinner and sometimes lunch at.
also our hotel rooms were close by each other, like, they were literally right by each other.
On the second day:
Probably the real reasons why we came to neveda was, aside from the family, because we wanted to go to a ren faire we had been to last time we were at narvane (2009 i believe? no, it was 2010 or 2011 i think.), called the valhalla ren faire.
The ren faire was in a forest, which was cool, and it was full of...well, things your normally see in a ren faire! knights, costumes, nerds, anacrisams, swords, horses, life-Wait, no you won’t see that at ren faires, white people, twats who their really knights when they actually are 30-somethings who live in their mom’s -oh, i’m sorry, i mean actually, legitimate 100% genuine knights.........and perhaps most surprising out of all of this..................air.
That said, its still one of the funnest ren fares i’ve been to, it has the most shops, the most horses, and the most food, like crepes (mmmmm, crepes.), speaking of horses, there was a pretty cool fight/joust between two cosplayers- er, i mean knights!, which had jousting and sword fighting and horseplay (As in they used horses alot, not as in they fought with fisty-cuffs), it was cool, despite the fact our team lost.
We also saw a guy playing galileo on stage, where he talked about galileo and the different theories on earths relationship with the sun. i got to volunteer and play as one of the planets, it was jupiter, and me and a couple of other volunteers from the audience acted out the different models of how the sun or earth revolves around the other (Heliocentrism, which is the correct one, where the earth revolves around the sun, and Geocentrism, the wrong outdated one where the sun revolves around the earth.), we all had props that where the different planets on sticks, with the names on them and a also sometimes a symbol, for example mars had a male symbol on it and venus had a woman symbol on it, because men are from mars and women are from venus (If you didn’t get the joke already), and reenacted the Geocentric and Heliocentric models with the props by spinning around the person who was either earth or the sun. at the end, galileo give me and the other planets his card:
:hopefully there will be a picture here:
and since the last time we were there i bought a crossbow, this time we bought two metal mugs, so that the next dsnr, when everyone pores there drinks into those weak plastic cups, we would pull out our MIGHTY METAL CUPS and shout “HAHA, PEASANTS, YOU ARE TOO WEAK TO STAND UP TO OUR MIGHTY NOBLE STANDARDS, NOW GO BACK TO THE FIELDS AND FORCING HORSES TO HAVE SEX AND CROPPING OUR FIELDS AND ENJOYING THE SMELL OF HORSE POO!”.
i also got a kind of nifty satchel, which is utterly useless because i don’t have a belt to put it on, but i like the way it looks and it is blue, and when i do have a belt, it will probably be useful for storing things in. or i could put C4 into it, and mofie it to connect to a remote detonator via radio control, and use the homemade bomb to break into fort knox.
Hi again nsa.
Not that fort knox has anything valuable in it.
But yeah, the ren fare was awesome you said that before move on.
oh and also my dad’s old friend shawn was there, they talked about stuff in the car we rented a few days before, and he talked about how he had a new girl friend and stuff like that, he also was not happy at how my dad, despite studying creative writing at college, doesn’t really write all that much, and he was angry at that because he wanted him to write a poem for his girlfriend, because writing it myself is “too hard guuuuuise!”
And that was it, we just got tired and hung out at the cosino, and had dinner at a mexican place, or was that the day after? No, it was definitely this day.
and on the 3th day:
early in the day, we and nana and papa got on a carriage walked by a horse which was ran by some girl, she took us around town and to the beach, it was interesting for me because i had never been on a carriage pulled by a horse, it was different from a car because your mostly inside the car, and you really only feel the outside if your window is open. but the the carriage, being pulled by the strength of a horse, was alot slower, and felt more natural, when your in a car your mind goes fast and you have a desire to bump your head to music, but with the carriage your mind is slow and all you want to do is look at the scenery, at least in my experiences.
she talked with everyone about the city and stuff, but i didn’t really say anything, because i usually don’t talk much when i’m in a car, or a carriage.
i also got to feed the horse, the feeling of the horse’s mouth eating the food on my hand felt weird, and kinda scared me a bit, but i was just overreacting, it was interesting.
really, we just hanged with each other and the family and at one point me and mom went swimming in the pool, while dad gambled with nana, we both made the mistake of getting into the hot pool first, and then we fell asleep on the chairs, dad got 500$! he was lucky!
and robert and his family left this day too, nothing much to say there.
finally, at the night, we (meaning just me and my mom and dad), went to the beach, and watched the sunset.
also the water on the of tahoe was cold as hell. so i didn’t even try to swim in it.
and on the final day:
we ate breakfast with nana and papa at the dinner. and then we went to a restaurant that sort of had a stupid country bear theme, which was just there to appeal to nostalgic people, that said though, the blueberry pancakes there were DAMN GOOD, so much so that even gb and papa john couldn’t resist taking a bite from it, also i realized that it was a great bookend for the vacation, because we started by eating pancakes at a restaurant with my grandparents from my mom’s side, and ended the same way. Yep, we didn’t get back on the plane, i was convinced to stay in nevada for life because of the blueberry pancakes, so i bought a house in nevada and lost all of my savings on gambling.
.......Actually we ended it by going to the airport and saying goodbye to everyone, and then we flew away. on a airplane, we didn’t fly away like as in we grow wings and flew all the way back to bellingham. as cool as that would be. but no, man is unable to fly on his own, until scientists invent argumentations to allow the human to fly like superman, but then again, if it existed, it probably would be more like a big jump instead of a flying ability, which is what superman used to do until dc wanted to make everyone jealous of superman, a fictional character, and made him able to fly. riots happened.
....yeah, and then we went home on a airplane.
and thats that, that was certainly a fun trip, like any other with the family, really the only bad vacation that could happen to us is if we went to Iraq and got kidnapped by terrorist, or went to Brazil and got eaten by spiders, or Iran where we would get kidnapped by terrorists, AGAIN, or North Korea (apparently, they are now holding tours in north korea for tourists, but they intentionally do the tour on a narrow pathway, one with less property and oppression than is normally in north korea, to give a false impression of the place. “north korea is best korea”, but only if you do what they say and don’t walk off from the path.), or the Congo if we didn’t have a guide, or Bosnia, where would accidentally step on a old landmine that nobody bothered to pick up.
See you in a few days where i talk about my BRACES! and my birthday, and maybe some other stuff.
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