Wednesday, June 29, 2011

STOP #1...HUME LAKE, California



Our first stop for a 2 week time period is HUME LAKE. This is a very special place to us and, I especially have many fond memories of HUME. We thought it would be a great place to go to be in the mountains to enjoy God’s creation and just relax without much of a schedule. We arrived Saturday afternoon. I have to admit, even though we were loving everything about Hume I could tell we (mostly Andy and I) were struggling with the thought of 14 days with no schedule. In our hearts we knew we wanted this time to be about days filled with family times and no schedules. For us this is very hard, so it was a bit overwhelming. By Monday afternoon I think we finally got in the groove. We started slowing down and just letting the days happen. My kids are in heaven. Our lodge room is very nice and it backs up to the junior high camp. There is a small creek out back that my boys have already spent countless hours playing in. We ride our bikes all over camp, swim, watch all the “big” kids do the “camp thing”, eat yummy food (that mommy doesn’t have to prepare!!), eat lots of ice cream, and enjoy some quite afternoons in our room reading or playing games on the deck. This week is extra fun because our old church is up here, so we see many people we know as we go about our days. In the evenings the boys have been going to day camp and Allie goes to Huckleberry house. They love the activities they get to do and Andy and I enjoy a couple hours of “us” time. It’s amazing how much slower 3 hours up here goes than down the mountain. On Monday we hiked the 3 mile trail that goes around the lake. My little troopers made it and got to pick a treat out from the general store when we finished. Instead of food Andrew chose some cool 1980 sunglasses. That boy just keeps me smiling with his “style”, He loves his glasses and feels juts like one of the big kid campers. Today (Tuesday) we were spoiled with a wonderful pancake breakfast up at “inspiration point.” This is a place at the very top of camp that had breath taking views. The camp prepares a delicious breakfast up there and they have picnic tables for us to enjoy breakfast. After breakfast we headed to the lake for some canoeing. After an afternoon of swimming and an evening of watching the bellyflop contest my kiddos were pooped. Thankfully the campers had a late night chapel, so the grounds were quite. We took advantage of that and everyone was tucked in by 7:30. So we are settled into our beautiful home for the next 14 days and we look forward to many fun activities to come!!































2 comments:

  1. I've been anxiously awaiting to follow your adventures! Sounds awesome!! I'm jealous for the no schedule...enjoy every moment!!

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  2. Yeah! for Hume! It looks like you are all having a blast! Can't wait to read more!

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