Showing posts with label Trips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trips. Show all posts
Monday, May 3, 2010
Centenial Farms
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Big Bear
While David was on summer vacation from school we decided to do lots of little day trips to have family time together. We went to Disneyland a couple of days, the beach another, swimming, but we also took Luke up to the Big Bear cabin for the first time! We left on a Thursday early morning and left from Big Bear Saturday afternoon.
We had so much fun just experiencing new things with Luke. When we arrived we just unpacked our things and got everyone settled. We hung up the hammock and Luke and Dad we just relaxing and enjoying the great weather.
Luke was just having such a ball with being able to go outside and roam around in a large yard with lots and lots of sticks. We saw tons of squirrels and bugs and other wild life that we don't get to see all the time in suburbia. I was so pleased and content that I could allow Luke to venture off and explore. Living in an apartment on the second floor he really doesn't get to do very many outside activities because there really is no outside area to just play. Then later we went to the village and shopped around. We really didn't do that much shopping, just walking around and looking at all the changes that had occurred in the last couple of years. Our site seeing came to a halt when it began to rain and we thought it was probably a good idea to head home and make dinner.
David and I thought it would be lots of fun to barbecue up there and then have smores for dessert. Unfortunately because it had just rained it made the air humid and harder for the charcoal to heat up. We had hamburgers the first night and they we cooked partially on the barbecue and partially cooked in the microwave. It was a learning experience that we will definitely look back on and remember.
On Friday we decided that we wanted to take Luke fishing! David and I had not been since both of us were very young. So we thought
that we would make try make good memories with Luke. So off we went down to the KMART to get a fishi
ng license and some bait. Then we staked out a spot at Boulder Bay and went to it. David had fished previously in Big Bear several times before and had no luck with catching anything. We were hoping for the sake of Luke that we would at least catch one fish. So there we were fishing as a family, Davi
d picked it up easy and remembered how to cast and bai
t the hook and all that good stuff. I unfortunately had a horrible time remembering. As you can see I couldn't cast or bait the hook, so I just sat in the chair eating Cheetos Cheese Puffs and watched David teach Luke. Luke had such a blast! He never really understood what we were doing but we made him a makeshift rod out 
of a stick and twine and baited it for him so he could just swing it around without hurting anyone. We were only planning on staying a little while but we were having such a good time being together and watching Luke fish, that we stayed till the weather got bad. It was cooler that day and we had an overhead cloud cover off and on and eventually it rained and we had to clean up and leave. But all in all we had a great time and plan to do it again really soon.
After we got back David decided to rake the yard and clean up a little bit. He thought it would be a good idea it being fire season and all. We just couldn't believe how many trash bags he and Luke filled up. It was probably 15 years plus worth of dead weeds and pine needles. Later that night we barbecued again and had better success.
Later that night we bathed Luke in the sink. The sink you might ask? The water heater needs to be replaced and so it is not very affective in heating the water. So if we wanted hot water to wash dishes or bathe Luke we had to heat up water in the kettle on the stove. David and I of course could not bathe in the sink so we had to take cold showers in the bathroom. The cabin is 30 years old and needs a lot of work, Tom and Monica are slowly but surely replacing things here and there. But with that being said we are still in the wilderness and there are more creepy crawly things lurking about. Such as carpenter ants that are 1/4" long and spiders, mice and rats. Things that I am just not fond of. The carpenter ants were a real problem because they were getting water from the toilet and I was terrified that they would bite me while I was going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. We also found tons of mice and rat doo-doo and so I didn't want Luke or any of us to walk around with out or shoes on. I didn't think that I am a complete clean freak but maybe I am. I definitely will bring my vacuum, duster and cleaning supplies next time we come so that I will be able to enjoy myself.
On Satu
rday we really wanted to g
o out on the lake and have some water fun. So we decided to go look at the local pirate ship. It really wasn't all that impressive and we couldn't even go aboard and look at it. But we did see a really cool school of baby catfish on the dock! Later we made our way down to the North Shore. We had decided that we would rent kayaks and have a lunch out on the water. When we got there we were advised that kayaks were not that stable and deep so instead we rented a canoe. I think that it was a great choice. Luke was actually kind of scared it was really rocky out on the water and the wind really started to pick up. It took us so long just to move maybe about 50 yards that I was already tired after a half hour and wanted to head back to shore. David being a super Dad pulled the weight for all of us and got us going. We ate our lunch in the canoe but got rocked a litt
le too hard from the wake of a boat and we got shooken up a bit and water got in the canoe and in our bag of Cheetos Cheese Puffs! Bummer! After that we headed back to shore and made our way home.
I am so glad that we went and that we as a new family are starting to make traditions and great memories of our own.
We had so much fun just experiencing new things with Luke. When we arrived we just unpacked our things and got everyone settled. We hung up the hammock and Luke and Dad we just relaxing and enjoying the great weather.Luke was just having such a ball with being able to go outside and roam around in a large yard with lots and lots of sticks. We saw tons of squirrels and bugs and other wild life that we don't get to see all the time in suburbia. I was so pleased and content that I could allow Luke to venture off and explore. Living in an apartment on the second floor he really doesn't get to do very many outside activities because there really is no outside area to just play. Then later we went to the village and shopped around. We really didn't do that much shopping, just walking around and looking at all the changes that had occurred in the last couple of years. Our site seeing came to a halt when it began to rain and we thought it was probably a good idea to head home and make dinner.
David and I thought it would be lots of fun to barbecue up there and then have smores for dessert. Unfortunately because it had just rained it made the air humid and harder for the charcoal to heat up. We had hamburgers the first night and they we cooked partially on the barbecue and partially cooked in the microwave. It was a learning experience that we will definitely look back on and remember.
On Friday we decided that we wanted to take Luke fishing! David and I had not been since both of us were very young. So we thought
that we would make try make good memories with Luke. So off we went down to the KMART to get a fishi
ng license and some bait. Then we staked out a spot at Boulder Bay and went to it. David had fished previously in Big Bear several times before and had no luck with catching anything. We were hoping for the sake of Luke that we would at least catch one fish. So there we were fishing as a family, Davi
d picked it up easy and remembered how to cast and bai
t the hook and all that good stuff. I unfortunately had a horrible time remembering. As you can see I couldn't cast or bait the hook, so I just sat in the chair eating Cheetos Cheese Puffs and watched David teach Luke. Luke had such a blast! He never really understood what we were doing but we made him a makeshift rod out 
of a stick and twine and baited it for him so he could just swing it around without hurting anyone. We were only planning on staying a little while but we were having such a good time being together and watching Luke fish, that we stayed till the weather got bad. It was cooler that day and we had an overhead cloud cover off and on and eventually it rained and we had to clean up and leave. But all in all we had a great time and plan to do it again really soon.After we got back David decided to rake the yard and clean up a little bit. He thought it would be a good idea it being fire season and all. We just couldn't believe how many trash bags he and Luke filled up. It was probably 15 years plus worth of dead weeds and pine needles. Later that night we barbecued again and had better success.
Later that night we bathed Luke in the sink. The sink you might ask? The water heater needs to be replaced and so it is not very affective in heating the water. So if we wanted hot water to wash dishes or bathe Luke we had to heat up water in the kettle on the stove. David and I of course could not bathe in the sink so we had to take cold showers in the bathroom. The cabin is 30 years old and needs a lot of work, Tom and Monica are slowly but surely replacing things here and there. But with that being said we are still in the wilderness and there are more creepy crawly things lurking about. Such as carpenter ants that are 1/4" long and spiders, mice and rats. Things that I am just not fond of. The carpenter ants were a real problem because they were getting water from the toilet and I was terrified that they would bite me while I was going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. We also found tons of mice and rat doo-doo and so I didn't want Luke or any of us to walk around with out or shoes on. I didn't think that I am a complete clean freak but maybe I am. I definitely will bring my vacuum, duster and cleaning supplies next time we come so that I will be able to enjoy myself.
On Satu
rday we really wanted to g
o out on the lake and have some water fun. So we decided to go look at the local pirate ship. It really wasn't all that impressive and we couldn't even go aboard and look at it. But we did see a really cool school of baby catfish on the dock! Later we made our way down to the North Shore. We had decided that we would rent kayaks and have a lunch out on the water. When we got there we were advised that kayaks were not that stable and deep so instead we rented a canoe. I think that it was a great choice. Luke was actually kind of scared it was really rocky out on the water and the wind really started to pick up. It took us so long just to move maybe about 50 yards that I was already tired after a half hour and wanted to head back to shore. David being a super Dad pulled the weight for all of us and got us going. We ate our lunch in the canoe but got rocked a litt
le too hard from the wake of a boat and we got shooken up a bit and water got in the canoe and in our bag of Cheetos Cheese Puffs! Bummer! After that we headed back to shore and made our way home.I am so glad that we went and that we as a new family are starting to make traditions and great memories of our own.
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