Thanksgiving in Idyllwild
We left Wednesday night unfortunately with a sick Bella (3rd day of 103 temp!) to Idyllwild. We weren't able to get on the road until 5 PM and hit traffic, but fortunately Idyllwild is only 1.5 hrs away so twice that still isn't that terrible.
We rented a cabin home with full kitchen, deck, BBQ, craft table and dining room table. We all loved it, with a 1 mile downhill walk into town. Jeff made a wonderful turkey salad, mashed potatoes and green bean dinner on Thanksgiving. Friday and Saturday we got in a couple great hikes! We were very impressed with Morgan's 6.6 mile hike up to Suicide Rock gaining 1700 ft without any complaining. Bella on the other hand who got carried up and down, said she was tired! Considering she was recovering from the flu she was a trooper.
Idyllwild is a cute town. We had BBQ one day and listened to a live band; the girls danced which meant I had to 'Mom Dance' with them. Of course Jeff snapped a bunch of photos! We also went to a pottery art place and the girls and Jeff painted. Saturday night we saw the huge tree lighting; it was amazing how busy the town was with daytrippers from SoCal visiting. The weather turned out to be perfect, though exactly opposite what we had planned for as it was 80 in the day and in the 60's at night. We were hoping to find snow and really need to use the wood burning stove to stay warm, but who can complain with perfect weather in November?!
It was a wonderful weekend. We played board games, did a few craft projects at home and had a lot of quality family time. And Elf on a Shelf showed up in our cabin our last morning. Morgan has been wishing for a real elf and we got a girl! Amazingly she moved around the cabin a little, packed herself in a box and now is sitting above our fireplace - the girls are most impressed and excited! Here are some photos of our trip. Love to you all. JeLiMoBe
PS - you will notice a lot more photos of Morgan who enjoys having her photo taken! Bella usually is better about taking a few but being sick she wasn't into the photo shoots by trees.
Transporting 4-days of trash out of our cabin |
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