The Joneses at Tahoe

It seemed like an ordinary Tahoe day. Off to Meeks Bay, stopping at Tahoma for sandwiches... sitting under umbrellas watching Kaitlin and Maddy swim to the buoys. Lori joined them and I saw her bobbing in the water and I said to everyone, "Is Lori in trouble?" You know, the mommy in me came out. Everyone said that she was fine. when she came back in, I asked her about it. It seems that she had put on her bathing suit bottom inside out. She was correcting it when I saw her bobbing. She stood up and her bathing suit bottom was still inside out. She went back in the water and out a ways and tried once more. This time her bottom was on correctly. Lori was not the only one who had trouble with their bottoms. Dan did not recognise the underwear on his buttox. He says, "This isn't my underwear." Whose it is? It is stretchy, it is black... turns out they accidentally got into Dan's underwear drawer. They are Maddys!

So we are back at the cabin... playing boose car... the new boose car... having a few drinks... Lori and Jeff are making dinner, when BAMM... Jeff chopping mint almost chops off his finger. We are not sure how much he has taken off. Lynne, the calm one in an emergency calls 911. They give her  instructions and send help. Jeff is definitely going into shock because it is so unlike him to make a mistake, especially with a knife. He is on the floor with legs up and Lori soothing him with cold cloths. His hand is wrapped and elevated. So there is all this highway construction going on and the traffic is  being detoured onto Interlaken, right in front of our house. We hear ambulances and fire engines, but they go right past us and then about 20 minutes later a fire truck and an ambulance pull up in front of our house. Almost immediately, they determine that the fire truck is not needed and send it to the next emergency. The EMT's assess Jeff and we are not sure if we will have to go to Truckee to the hospital or not. They determine, "or not", bandage him up, talk him through the trauma and get on their way. In the meantime, a neighbor drives by and asks, "Is there a death?'