Czech Christmas dinner and Holiday party 9. - 10. 12. 2017

It has become a tradition to host early Czech Christmas dinner and Holiday party at the same weekend. This time it was even a little bit earlier, since I was 38 weeks pregnant at that point and we weren't sure when the little girl will decide to show up.
We had 12 adults and 9 children for our Czech dinner and 11 adults and 6 children for our party. It was a lot of fun!
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Uz je to tradici poradat ceskou vanocni veceri a vanocni party ten stejny vikend. Tento rok to bylo i trochu drive nez obvykle, jelikoz jsem byla uz 38 tydnu tehotna a my jsme nevedeli, kdy se mala rozhodne ukazat.
Na ceskou veceri k nam prislo 12 dospelych a 9 deti a na vecirek 11 dospelych a 6 deti. Moc jsme si to uzili.
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Thanksgiving - Soda Springs 23. - 26. 11. 2017

This year we went with three other families to Soda Springs area, close to Truckee/Lake Tahoe. There was a little snow in the area, but not too much. We did a few walks around the area and also managed one trip to local swimming pool. It was nice and relaxing long weekend.
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Tento rok jsme jeli se tremi dalsimi rodinami do oblasti Soda Sprins, blizko Truckee/Jezera Tahoe. V oblasti bylo trochu snehu, ale ne prilis. Vysli jsme na nekolik malych prochazek v oblasti a taky jsme si vyrazili zaplavat do mistniho bazenu. Byl to pekny odpocinkovy prodlouzeny vikend.
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Baby sprinkle 19. 11. 2017

With my due date approaching, we wanted to celebrate the occasion in similar way as for Adam. Our friend Amy organized for us baby sprinkle for our baby girl.
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S prichazejicim terminu porodu jsme chteli oslavit tuto prilezitos podobne jako pro Adamkem. Nase kamaradka Amy zorgnizovala pro nasi holcicku "baby sprinkle".
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Yosemite 11. - 12. 11. 2017

Yosemite is place where I love to go and we managed to find one weekend even this busy fall to get there. We stayed at Half Dome (Curry) village again and on Saturday we hiked around Mirror lake. It was quite cold and since we stayed in the valley it took long time to warm up. After the hike we went to Majestic (Ahwahnee) hotel for hot chocolate and then for dinner to Yosemite lodge. Usually it would be relatively short bus drive, but there was construction going on in the valley and the busses were late, overcrowded and it took long time to get to the destination.
On Sunday we drove to Glacier point where we took a few family and pregnancy photos, enjoyed lunch and relatively early head home.
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Yosemite je misto kam vzdy rada jezdim a i tento nabity podzim jsme nasli vikend, kdy jsme se tam vypravili. Znovu jsme prespavali v Half Dome (Curry) village a v sobotu jsme vyrazili na turu kolem jezera Mirror. Bylo docela chladno a jelikoz jsme byli v udoli, tak to chvili trvalo nez se oteplilo. Po vyslapu jsme jeli do Majestic (Ahwahnee) hotelu na kakako a pak na veceri do Yosemite lodge. Vetsinou je toto pomerne kratka cesta autobusem, ale protoze v udoli probiha rekonstrukce cest tak autobusy jezdi se zpozdenim, jsou precpane a cety trvaji hodne dlouho.
V nedeli jsem vyjeli na Glacier point, kde jsme udelali nekolik rodinnych a tehotenskych fotek, uzili si obed a pomerne brzo pak vyrazili domu.
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Boca Spring camping 1. - 4. 9. 2017

Our last camping trip for this year was at Boca Spring campground near Truckee. We had about 8 other families joining us. In the Bay area where we live were extreme heats, so we managed to escape a little. It was still hot, so on Saturday we took it quite lazy and stayed most of the day at the camp. We went only for little swim at the lake in the afternoon. On Sunday we all went for a short hike, that we ended by splashing at a creek. We also got a little rain, so that cooled off the air. On Monday we did only very short walks to the Boca spring that was at the camp and we stopped to look at the Boca dam. Because it was a long weekend and people were also driving back from Burning Man, we got stuck in the traffic and arrived home around 6 pm.
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Nase posledni kempovani tento rok bylo v Boca Spring kempu pobliz Truckee. Dalsich asi 8 rodin se k nam pripojilo. V Bay Area, kde bydlime, byly extremni horka a tak jsme alespon trochu tomu unikli. Bylo i tak horko a tak jsme v Sobotu nic moc nedelali a zustali vetsinu dne v kempu. Zasli jsme se jen kratce okoupat odpoledne do jezera. V nedeli jsme vsichni vyrazili na kratky vyslap, ktery jsme zakoncili ochlazenim se v potoku. Taky nam trochu zaprselo, coz prineslo male ochlazeni. V pondeli jsme se sli jen projit k pramenu Boca, ktery byl v kempu a zastavili jsme se u prehrady Boca. Protoze byl prodlouzeny vikend a lide se take vraceli z akce "Burning Man", dostali jsme se do zacp a domu jsme dorazili az kolem 18 h.
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Black Oak Camping 19. - 20. 8. 2017

On our second kid friendly camping came 17 adults and 12 children. Everybody had a great time, even though I think this was one of the most dustiest camping I have done. There weren't many good trails around, so we took it easy and spent Saturday by close by lake and campsite. We did similar thing on Sunday. Before we packed everything it was almost lunch time, so we stopped by the lake again and then drove home. We also stop for early dinner at Czech restaurant in Concord.
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Na nase druhe kempovani s detmi prijelo 17 dospelych a 12 deti. Vsichni si to uzili i kdyz to bylo asi jedno s nejprasnejsich kempovani na kterem jsem byla. V okoli nebylo mnoho znacenych cest na vyslapy a tak jsme nic moc nedelali a stravili sobotu u jezera a v kempu. Podobne tomu bylo i v nedeli. Nez jsme vse zbalili, tak byl skoro obed a tak jsme se jen zastavili znovu u jezera a pak jeli domu. Po ceste jsme se jeste zatavili na brzkou veceri v ceske restauraci v Concordu.
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Bear River camping 28. - 30. 7. 2017

Last year we started a new tradition - camping with families with children. This camping was first out of three that we planned for this year and it was great - great people, great place. The campground was by a reservoir, but unfortunately there weren't really any good hikes close by. So on Saturday some of us drove about 30 minutes to trailhead to one lake. On Sunday we packed, walked to a place with a view of the reservoir, then stop for lunch by the reservoir and after short swim drove back home.
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Minuly rok jsme zacali novou tradici - kempovani s rodinami s detmi. Toto kempovani bylo prvni ze tri, ktere jsme naplanovali na tento rok a vydarilo se - super lidi, super misto. Kemp byl u prehrady, ale bohuzel v blizkem okoli nebyla moznost dobrych tur. Tak v sobotu nekteri z nas vyrazily na turu asi 30 minut autem. V nedeli jsme se zabalili, udalali si malou prochazku na jedno misto z vyhledem na prehradu, pak se zastavili u prehrady na obed a po kratkem zaplavani jeli zpet domu.
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