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Birthday, Concert, Champions…

Well, let’s start with me turning 50!!!!! My birthday weekend in Truckee, California. It’s right by Lake Tahoe and I had never been. I really really liked the place! Took a 1h flight to Reno. Picked up a rental car at the airport and had to grab some food in Reno before driving to Truckee. Mexican food is almost always a hit and pair that with a Margarita, and it’s most likely a success. Mexcal was a great spot and the food was delicious!

The Airbnb was about 15 minutes outside of the city of Truckee. No streetlights, just the woods surrounding you. A little spooky…

Place was great and I enjoyed the big deck outside with the trees surrounding the place. I always bring single packs of instant coffee so I know I’m guaranteed caffeine first thing after I wake up!

Then headed into town and the most recommended breakfast spot was Squeeze In. The name was decided since the place is tight and you have to kind of squeeze yourself in. Established in 1974 and popping since then. So good and I get why they’re so popular!

I had obviously scouted out some coffee places too. It’s a small town so you get everywhere by walking. Right by Truckee River was Dark Horse Coffee Roasters. Thumbs up for a great cup of java!

Decided that this weekend was also the weekend to treat myself even if it contained sugar. Right outside town was Whole Treats Bakery. I think everything was made there and gluten free. Opted for a chocolate chip cookie and a cinnamon bun. They made love to my mouth!!! Do I even have to point out that I was beyond stuffed after this hahahaaa…

Before I left, my neighbors told me I have to visit the nude beach there. Not just for the nude people, but they said it was beautiful. Off I went to Secret Cove Nude Beach. Beautiful drive out there and couldn’t believe Lake Tahoe had such clear water! Had to make a couple of stops along the way and lookiloo… Not to mention the houses right on the water!

Parked by the road when I my navigation alerted I reached the Nude Beach. It’s a hike down there and a couple of signs telling you that you might encounter naked people and to act normal hahahaaa…

The beach was one of the top 3 beaches I’ve ever been to! So beautiful and crystal clear water. You find your own little spot and I shared a small sandy spot with a naked man that was from all over the place. Not everyone was naked and I think it was about 80% men naked and 20% women. Interesting split…

I hope I make it back to this beach in the future!!!!

Beach and all that fresh air made me hungry again. Found Buoy & Trap that had lobster rolls which I love. Had a great conversation with this man (forgot his name), but he was from Chile and arranges tours there. I said I might one day hit him up as I would love to explore Chile. The lobster roll was top notch too!

Chilled at night and watched the stars with a glass of wine 🙂

How cool was it that the Airbnb was on Stockholm Way?

Spent the day in Truckee. Tried Cafe Lupine for breakfast. Cute place, but the ready made breakfast burritos were nothing special. The bakery treats were good and my coffee was pretty good.

After checking some shops out I checked out one more coffee spot – Coffeebar. They served it like 300 degrees so burned my tougue 🙁 They had one more spot in town and they served it perfect and their coffee was great. Could barely drink this after my burnt mouth!

In the evening it was time for my birthday dinner. One day early though, but whatever! It was a 10 course chefs tasting menu at Trokay. Wow wow wow! It was amazing! I loved the variety of meats I got to try and the brioche with caviar and pine cone syrup dessert was one of the best things I’ve eaten! Everyone that worked there was super nice too. Would eat it all all over again right now!

Sunday – me 50 years of experience, adventures, up’s and downs and now I’m aiming for 50 more! Happy birthday to me again and well done making it to 50 in one piece 🙂

Checked out of the airbnb and went for breakfast at Donner Kitchen by Donner Lake. Another popular spot and there was a wait. It was worth it!

Didn’t expect a lot from Donner Lake after seeing Lake Tahoe, but it was super nice too. Picked an easy trail and walked around until I found a nice spot by an inlet to chill at. Spotted this lady canoeing with her dog 🙂

Walked a bit more and then read at this dock. Might of taken a nap there too…

Before driving back to Reno I fueled up from the other Coffeebar which was great. Also spotted this cute Frenchie in a stroller 🙂

Arrived home at night to a happy Hunter. He was getting spoiled by Jennifer Dark while I was gone so no need to worry about him 🙂 Here’s him dressed up for my birthday pics. How handsome is he?

That was one awesome birthday weekend. I’m pretty sure I’ll go back there one day!

Before the trip Angel invited me to go see Chris Brown and Usher here in Vegas. I might not be as big of a fan of them as Angel is, but it was a great concert! She had gotten some VIP tickets so we took full advantage of free drinks and hit the sugar station like 2 happy kids hahahaaa….

Gym happened like one time…

Was put to work…

Hair finally got fixed up too…

Our fall league in pickleball started. We’ve been practicing a lot and last Monday we won our first game wohooo! Me & Courtney won 4 out of 6 games! It was pretty windy when we started so it was hard to play, but we figured it out! I did get hit in the lip and the tit with a pickleball that day, but a win is a win!

Afterwards we went and picked up our Championship rings from winning the summer league! Woop woop!

Oh, I did get 100 pickleballs for my birthday too, so now I can go hit and practice even more!

Tyler Faith is in town and we shot stuff for OFTV and YouTube. So much fun and I’ll share more about it next week. Here is one video we did last time she was in town called Mantoring 101 on YouTube – https://youtu.be/ARhsObCk1-k?si=Qy4gpbsJrUI94v9o

Don’t have time to write more. Time to change and off for our Sunday practice 🙂 First week as 50 has been great and I’ll leave you with a couple of Hunter & me pics 🙂 Oh, he had a fight the other night and as I came running out, he was chasing a cat down our street. Good boy!

Let’s go get it! (Whatever it is) LOL…

XXX Puma

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DMV, Pickleball Party, Sewing…

First up is the pics from last Sunday’s hike at Historic Railroad Trail with Angel. It didn’t start out too good because it was pouring down when we got close to the location. Sitting in the car at the parking lot, it slowed down and we decided to go for it because the worst that could happen was us getting wet… Not the first time that happens 😉

The trail has a bunch of tunnels you walk through. There were signs where you could read the history about the tunnels and the area when it was being developed. It also said that there are bats in tunnels at times! I really wanted to see one, but we didn’t spot any! Instead we tried to make a cool picture of us jumping, but that was all it was, a try hahhaaa… And the last tunnel we went through, smelled of piss. Decided that was enough and hiked back…

Both of us love food so looked up a restaurant in the small town Boulder City and found a great one called Fox BBQ. So good and their homemade peach cobbler with ice-cream was the bomb!

Took a stroll down the main street to try to digest a bit before the drive back. It’s a cute little town and it gets super busy on the weekends.

To try and get an appointment at the Department of Motor vehicles here in Vegas is not easy. I had to cancel a previous appointment, so my Drivers License had expired, plus I couldn’t renew it online since it’s a California license and I need a Nevada license now. On top of that I needed to register my car here and pay for a new registration in Nevada. Oh, also needed a RealID that they now require for travel. Angel had an appointment so we decided for me to just go with her and if there was a problem, we’d say we’re from Europe and you can just have one appointments for up to 3 people. Luckily we didn’t have to lie 🙂 The guy was nice and processed all my stuff too! Now I have Nevada plates, car is registered here and waiting for my new license and RealID! Shit got handled!

Finally tried my sewing machine out. I have learned from previous errors, to first try it out and see what problems you might run into before sewing the actual piece you are working on. Worked like a charm and soon I’ll be a part time seamstress 🙂 I feel like I’m doing age appropriate hobbies now; sewing, embroidery and painting. Soon I’ll be knitting LMAO!

A walk in the park! And please cross your fingers! Tomorrow I’m seeing a Rheumatologist and hope I’ll get some answers to all my pains and issues!

Too lazy to even get out of my car to go in and buy a coffee so just did the drive through window. Feel real American doing that 🙂 By the way, have you heard why American cars are automatic? So you can eat while you drive hahahaa… I’ve done that too!

Last night there was a lady from pickleball who had a little house party. So fun too see everyone and made me miss playing even more 🙁 But I’m hoping to be back playing soon! She even had a pickleball court in her backyard. I’d take that and a pool!

No, I didn’t skimp on work. I even played Vampirella with fake fangs, black wig, and all. Forgot to take pics, but Halloween is coming so just wait…

What else. I colored Angel’s hair one day too. Guess I got a bit carried away, but she still has hair on her head sooooo…

Her doggos are as attention craving as Hunter and always staying close by keeping an eye on mom 🙂

OK, so remember, fingers crossed tomorrow please 🙂 My plan is to be healed up when October is done, so this better work!

I’ll cross my fingers for you to have a fantastic week as well!

XXX Puma

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Hikes, Sister, LA, Baking…

So much fun stuff happened so didn’t have time to check in here 🙂 A couple of weeks ago the Swedish girl Catherine took me hiking. We went to a trail called the Late Night Trailhead. Easy hike and great views. Got great Vegas tips from her and hopefully we’ll go bowling next 🙂

Put in some work hours before my sister arrived here in Vegas 🙂

Finally it was time for my sister Jaana to arrive! But Angel arrived earlier from a trip so I picked her up first. I have an ex who was so disappointed that I didn’t meet him inside the airport with a welcome sign (he’d been gone for a week) and only pulled up with the car outside. I made more effort this time and texted Angel that her driver was here, WITH a sign, to collect her…

We had time to take her dogs to the park before my sister landed…

My sister arrived in one piece and I’m not sure if she was more excited to meet Hunter or me. She used to have 2 cats. Hunter seemed happy the next morning to have a new person to get attention from 🙂

Showed her around the town the first day and we did some shopping. Had to break for some food at one point. She got me this awesome Fjällräven shirt 🙂

Had a pickleball lesson at night so I put her in one of the massage chairs and showed her where the sauna is so she could chill while I worked on my ball skills…

We drove out to the Valley Of Fire one day and took Angel with us. It’s about an 1h and 20 min drive out there and so worth it! Beautiful rock formations and in parts it’s like walking on a soft sandy beach.

I found this rock and I don’t know anyone sees what I see? If you do it just proves that great (or dirty) minds think alike hahahaa…

One night we hit the strip. There are full preparations going on for the F1 races coming up… Will stay as far away as possible from the area next week as it will be loco!

Catherine the Swedish girl recommended this speakeasy bar called the Ski Lodge. Such a cool bar. All decorated in the theme and great cocktails! Mine was called Noche Buena with Don Julio tequila, gajillo, abuelita hot chocolate, peanut, allspice, cinnamon, milk and topped with marshmallows. Sounded too weird not to try and it was sooo good! And then we made smores at the bar. The bar is inside Cosmopolitan and I totally recommend a visit there! Thanks for the tip Catherine 🙂

Stopped by Bellagio and they are prepping their Xmas decorations. They had this amazing Xmas store and if someone feels like sending me muchos deniro, I will go back and buy half the store!

We both like shiny things, but ended up with matching sweaters 🙂

Angel also treated to us what I now think is the greatest pizza place in Vegas – Settebello. I had a pizza with housemade jalapeno pear marmalade, spicy salami, red basil, mozzarella and parmigiano. Wow, wow, wow! My mouth is watering just writing this. And for dessert we had a Nutella pizza. We pretty much rolled out there!

Jaana smothered Hunter one last time and then we jumped in the car and drove to LA.

Checked in to our hotel and met up Sandy with the kids at The Grove. I used to go there all the time when I lived in LA…

Sandy then took us for dinner at Arden. It’s a pretty new restaurant with a cool vibe and great food. I finished my pizza with truffles before I had time to take a picture of it! The truffle pasta was also delicious! Oh, and the waiter told us that Jennifer Lopez sat at our table a couple weeks ago. Wonder if they will tell Jennifer, that Puma Swede sat at her table if she comes back? Hahhaaa…

They also have a speakeasy called Society Club where a magician performs magic tricks. I didn’t want to f*ck up his tricks by flashing a pic of him so I flashed the bartender instead hahahaa…

In the front there’s a coffee shop that serves Sightglass Coffee. I appreciate when you get proper coffee and not some stale machine coffee 🙂

Ran around town the next day and popped by one of my favorite coffee shops, Adante Coffee. At night we watched the Jake vs Tyson fight at Sandy’s house. Did you guys watch it? I was mostly impressed by Jake’s million dollar shorts!

Yesterday we checked out of the hotel and went to Sandy’s. I had promised her kids a bake off contest. We went shopping for ingredients and then the contest started. The kids had found a recipe on TikTok and made chocolate souffles. 2 ingredients only, eggs and Nutella. They were so good and I’m impressed that they pulled them off! Me and Jaana made what I think is a Swedish dessert called Gino. You mix bananas, blueberries, kiwi, strawberries and raspberries (which we forgot) in an oven safe form. Then put white chocolate on top that melts in the oven. Throw on some mint leaves and voila… Oh, serve it with vanilla ice cream too. So easy and I always eat it in Sweden if the restaurant has it. I think the kids won. Maybe…

The kids also made up this game for us that we played and I won! The game was obviously right up my alley with the ‘poop’ pieces you played with hahhaaa…

After we went for a little hike. I could’ve used a nap but kids have unlimited amount of energy I’ve learned…

After that it was time to say by to my LA family and drop my sister off at LAX. Always a bit sad and feels so empty when you been hanging 24/7 🙁 I decided to hit the road after and drive back to Vegas. I love driving at night when there’s barely any other people on the road.

Left overs…

Been catching up today and went for a quick walk in the Red Rocks. Shooting some kind of commercial tomorrow all day. On Tuesday I get to practice my shooting skills and shooting some friends with a photographer 🙂 Got a shoot on Friday and Saturday and also my friend ‘Masha from Russia’ is popping by Vegas, I met her in Puerto Rico and haven’t seen her in ages. Going to be so much fun!!!! Now Hunter and I are going to watch some TV before bed 🙂

Wish you a great upcoming week!

XXX Puma

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