Aron and I drove up to Tahoe on Thursday evening for what one might call a “babymoon,” leaving Hudson is the care of grandparents. For Aron’s 35th birthday, his parents generously gifted him two nights at the Ritz-Carlton, so we were eager to take advantage of the opportunity before baby girl arrives (which could be any time, really, within the next six weeks).
The gorgeous hotel sits mid-mountain at Northstar-at-Tahoe ski resort and is ski-in/ski-out. Sadly, I couldn’t take advantage of this feature (I’ve always wanted to stay somewhere and do that!), but there was plenty else to enjoy (not least of all the view of others living out my ski-in-dreams from our room).
Aron and I are Tahoe-bound for two nights, just the two of us. Sort of a last hurrah before baby girl arrives, I suppose you could say. California is experiencing a worrisome drought this winter, so I’m not expecting a lot of snow in the Sierras—but perhaps I should count us lucky when thinking about the frigid weather much of the country has been experiencing.
Wherever you are, I hope you’re staying warm. I’ll sip some hot cocoa on your behalf.
And if you are indoors, opening up lots of browser tabs, here are a few links that have been notable to me lately…
Have you taken this dialect quiz, published on the New York Times site, yet? These are my results. Many seemed to indicate that I’m either a northern Californian at heart, or that I’ve been around one too long.
(Actually, I did send this immediately to Aron who got almost the exact same map as me. That’s 13 years for you.)
The questions themselves are so interesting. I found myself, on more than one occasion, thinking “Seriously? People say that?!” And I’m guessing I’m not the only one, because there’s even a spoof of the quiz in The New Yorker.
P.S. Now I’m curious: Do any of you pronounce Mary, merry, and marry differently? How? And where are you from?
