Saturday at South Lake Tahoe - part 1

Nancy had lots of recommendations of things for us to do at the Margaritaville Resort at South Lake Tahoe...

We started at the breakfast buffet... 

Biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage and a corny dog!

We were able to take over an expansion area of the restaurant in the atrium for our large group!

After breakfast, we walked down to the CVS with a couple of our friends...

... a view of the front of our hotel as we returned to it...

... obligatory selfie!

A look out of the window of our room toward the Marriott resort that was right behind our hotel.

We decided to take a walk down to the lakeshore. As we headed out, we were intrigued by the carriages out front...

"Tahoe Carriage"

We talked with the driver of the "horseless carriage" for a little while -- he said that they use horses in the winter with the sleighs, and they use carriages with horses before summer, but once it gets a little warm, they find that the visitors get concerned about the heat and the care of the horses, so they switch to the horseless carriages.

A couple other horseless carriages that were out in front of the hotel

Carl was interested in how they were powered -- electric motor...

... and lithium battery.

Friends Sheila and KC came out and we asked if they would like to walk down to the lake shore with us, and they were up for it... we had been cautioned by other friends that you couldn't actually get to the lake -- it was fenced off and there was a $30/person admission charge to access the beach (!!!!). We decided to walk down anyway...

Carl was able to get good pictures through the fence...

It is a very pretty lake!

There were a number of people for whom the $30/person was worth it!

It appeared that a wedding would be occurring at an events area at the lake.

As we walked back up the hill, Carl got a picture of our hotel with the mountain behind it.

Those were our daytime activities on Saturday. More about our evening activities in another post!