Lake Tahoe Vacation Saturday
The news said that Saturday was supposed to be cold, windy, snowy and overall a crappy day. I woke up to the opposite, it was sunny and calm! A perfect day for hitting the slopes! After rentals and lines at the gondola we finaly made it to the top of Heavenly Lake Tahoe at around 10:00am, it was sunny and about 5*. This was my first time back on the slopes in almost 10 years so we only made a handful of runs, and on our last run the clouds moved in, it started snowing, and visibility went down to about 25 feet! We decided this was our que to head home, so we headed to the Gondola for a ride down the mountain. The ride was relaxing, warm and about 30 minutes including the wait at the top outside in the snow. Back at the hotel we cleaned up, and rested for dinner.
Dinner tonight was going to be at the 19th Kitchen in Harveys.
With such great reviews we new we were going to be in for a treat! The wine selection at the 19th Kitchen was great as well as the apps. Food was prepared perfectly brought out on time and enjoyed by all. My choice for main course was Filet Mignon again as I wanted to compare with the previous nights excellant filet. I was tempted on getting Surf-n-Turf but the filet that I got was supposed to be ’special tonight’. The filet was awesome I will give you that but the Surf-N-Turf filet looked identical and came with a bunch of seafood, to say the most I was upset. The atmosphere was great, the wine was great, and the food was awesome!
When the dessert menus arrived everyone instantly joked about the #1 item “Donuts”… “Who would order donuts?” “Are they serious?” were just a couple things I remember hearing at dinner. We all picked out our dessers when the waitress came back and gave her suggestion of “Donuts”, was she joking I thought? Apparently I wasn’t the only one thinking this as others asked her about them. Apparently the donuts are made fresh right before they are served and come with two sauces. I think everyone added donuts ONTOP of their previously selected dessert items! When the donuts came they were your basic looking sugar donuts but they were warm, VERY FRUSH and tasted awesome dipped in either dark chocolate sauce or vanilla. My other dessert was an apple cobbler, it was average. To me it had to much cinnamon. By the end of dinner/dessert everyone agreed this was the best place we had eaten at in a long time including the previous night. Just when we were getting ready to leave Cotton Candy was delivered to our table, fresh, warm cotton candy at no charge delivered to our table at an upscale restaurant? What’s this world coming too! The cotton candy was pink in color, and warm and sugary in taste. Overall, nothing special just a unique idea for a restaurant… which appears to have worked as I`m here telling the world about it.
After dinner we hit the casino and I ended up loosing $20 right off the bat at $1 Wheel Of Fortune. Next I decided it was time to play a little longer and headed to the $00.25 Wheel of Fortune where my money would go a little further! I ended up getting 3 “Spins” in a row and walked away with $3.75 more than I started with including the $20 I lost previously. I`m not much a gambler so this was the end of my casino time. We headed back to our rooms where we decided to turn in early because if the weather was nice again tomorrow we were going to be hitting the slopes again.