Hume Lake

The final stop on our trip to see California was to the Steinert cabin at Hume Lake. As with all of our other stops, our trip wouldn't have been complete without it. As a child I spent many weeks there enjoying the mountains, and couldn't imagine my friends missing out on that experience. So, after the NFC breakfast we headed to the mountains. We stopped at the fruit stand on our way up, I just couldn't quit eating fruit, I miss it so much! We took a SLOW trip up the mountain so no one would get sick, it worked! When we were at Disneyland it was great to see Ethan's reactions to everything, well at Hume it was fun to Aaron's reactions. I know the mountains are beautiful, I do miss them, there is nothing that speaks to God's creation quite like the mountains, but to witness someone's first experience was great. Aaron is very animated (hm, much like someone else I know) so every chance we had he was asking "Can we stop and take a picture?" and was very excited to talk about how beautiful everything was. As always, the Sierra Nevadas did not disappoint.

The best part about staying at the cabin is that you really don't do much. We thought it would be a nice ending to our trip, and we were right. We sat around, read books, Kevin and Aaron went fishing, we played Mexican Train, we went on hikes (really just walks, but when you have a hiking stick it's a hike!)and we enjoyed ice cream from the Snack Shop...twice! We ate burgers at the Snack Shop one night for dinner, and the next night we ate fish and chicken on the deck at the cabin. Aaron and Kevin went fishing one morning and all I know is that when they got back they were extremely tired (the mountains didn't prove to be very cool because it was over 100 in the valley) and they had caught one fish. Yikes! Ethan witnessed Kevin cleaning the fish they had caught, we weren't sure how that would go over. It was just fine, while he was eating the fish we asked if he knew where the fish came from and his response was something like "Kevin caught it and then he cut it open." At one point he even acted like the piece of fish on his plate was alive and swimming, not sure what that was all about. Eating outside is one of my favorite things to do there, and we always take a group picture! The cabin was just as we had expected. It always brings floods of memories from when I was a child, I'm glad I have new memories that include our friends.

One more day of swimming at Max and Charlotte's!