Cal's Crew 2 2018

We held our biennial Smith Family Reunion this year at Lake Tahoe again.  Lake Tahoe is a beautiful location, but we got significant smoke from the fires burning in California which darkened the beauty a little bit.

This is my favorite picture of the week.  I wish I could say that the grandkids all like to cuddle up with me, but the real draw was the video on the phone Sylvan was holding.

The house we rented had a long, kind of steep driveway that led to the garage beneath the house.  That became a busy racetrack for bikes, scooters and feet.

The beach was just a short walk away, but I didn't get many beach pictures. It turned out to be a great place to take a nap.

Or do a little digging

We also enjoyed time just hanging out on the deck and visiting or enjoying the hot tub

On our way home from Tahoe we stopped at Donner Summit and hiked to the train tunnels.  Here are some mostly happy grandkids in the tunnels.

I also made each family pose for a picture overlooking a smokey Donner Lake.

Bordelons

Cal Smith family

Peter Smith family

Wright family

and Austin who is always ready for anything with a great big smile.

I love our family!

Cals Crew 2 reunion 2018 Rafting the Truckee River

One of our fun family reunion activities this year was rafting the Truckee River.  Everyone but our two new little girls, Ingrid and Leah, was able to raft, so we took turns watching the girls and everyone else got a chance to raft.  The river had a mild little current so the rafts just drift along without much paddling and you and hundreds of other rafters just enjoy the day.

I took this picture, but all of the rest were from my camera but by other photographers

 Thanks everyone for the great photos, I think we got all the rafters, but not quite everyone in focus.

You can see a few colorful heads of hair left over from the night before

Calvin and I switched out before the dangerous landing, but we heard that Peter and Rosie both made it out safely this year.  We also heard the the real high light for the 2-3 year old crowd was riding the bus back to the cars.