zip trees on this latest trip to visit grandpa we discovered treetop adventures in tahoe city. it's a series of ropes courses in, you guessed it, the treetops. they're connected together with zip lines. it's pretty fun to work real hard through the challenges. then as a reward you get to leap off a tree into space and go flying across the forest. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! heh. it's more expensive than a movie. but cheaper than a prostitute. there's a "squirrel" course for smaller people (kids). g, who's 10, did the adult course. he wanted to stay with dad and his big brother. besides. the kid course was aimed at much younger kids. he completed or "completed" all of the elements. sometimes he hung on the protection and pushed/pulled himself across. b did all of the adult elements. and the most fun one twice. i did the hardest blue course while they did the easiest pink course. g was a little short to reach all of the places he needed to clip to and unclip from. so he and i went pretty slowly sometimes. which allowed b to run off and do the blue course. which didn't work very well. afterwards we stayed together. b first. g second. b clips g to the tree and starts the next element. i catch up and unclip g from the tree. was significantly more fun this way. got stuck once on a zipline. mom had to rescue g from the ground using a really long rope attached to the line. we went to the early morning session at 9 am and had the whole place to ourselves. it was kinda cool how quickly i kinda forgot that i was some 10 meters up in a tree. seemed sorta natural. like i'm an elf who's lived here all my life.  ¶ 8:00 AM