Wendy & Mike's Visit
Friday Sept. 7 - Sunday Sept. 16th, 2001
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Saturday September 8th marked the 31st birthday of Wenz!!
Mike and Wendy flew in on Friday Sept. 7th to spend the weekend in Lake
Tahoe with Shane, Laurie and the rest of the Australian Rules Footy
Team. Of course we began our day with a couple of pieces of cake -
breakfast of champions!!! |
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Wendy, Laurie and Mike headed off on an all day hike in
the mountains surrounding Lake Tahoe (pictured in the background).
These newlyweds had Laurie working hard to keep up with them, but we had a
fabulous time enjoying the surroundings and chatting to various other
hikers along the way. |
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Wenz and Laur posing for a shot beneath this incredible
rock spectacle. |
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The hiking trio with Lake Tahoe pictured behind. |
Wendy and Mike flew in for the weekend and the plan was for
Mike to go home to Vancouver on the Sunday night and Wendy to stay on with
Laurie and Shane until Tuesday when she was supposed to fly down to LA for a
Medical course. Unfortunately with the tragic events that occurred on
September 11, 2001, Wendy was "stranded" with Laurie and Shane for a
whole week. Despite the horrific events that unfolded that week, Wenz and
Laur spent an amazing week together enjoying every minute of the time we
had - something that hasn't happened since Cambridge, England 1988.
Wendy expanded our culinary feats to include dough for our homemade pizza,
cinnamon rolls from scratch, and a variety of other delights!! We went
running together and explored parts of Santa Cruz on foot instead of my
car. I was sad to see my friend leave.