Sabbatical Trip Post #1

We've made it to California. We are at a Thousand Trails camp just south of Chico, CA. We spent the day playing in the lake, watching Ethan do paddle boat races, doing bumper boats and swimming in the pool. Jacob loved playing in the lake and on the beach. He even liked the bumper boats - especially when he and Dad were hitting Mo & Ethan.

Before we came here, we were at Crater Lake, OR for 2 nights. We all loved it and thought it was beautiful. Unfortunately the boat dock was broken, so we couldn't go to the island. We did our first hike with Jacob in the back pack and that was an interesting experience - I didn't realize I needed to do more 'training' for our sabbatical! But we made it up the side of the crater. Jacob loved camping here - he was eating durt and was brown within 1 hr of arriving at the site. When he is in the trailer and anyone is outside, he gets mad - just wanting to go outside, it's cool to see him enjoying it so much

The drive has gone well - exept if you're George the Tahoe - he is not liking all the hills, so we are going to take him to Chevy tomorrow to make sure we're not abusing him too bad. He hasn't had any problems, we just want to make sure he doesn't have any! Jacob is doing well with the driving, but has had limited naps lately, so we're trying to have some consistency (however you do that traveling 3600 miles in 3 week, i haven't quite figured out yet!). Jason is doing the driving and has hit a few espresso stops, which we are documenting of course! The trailer is a bit squirly especially on the major highways so it isn't easy driving, he is doing great. He even drove it around Crater Lake counter clockwise - which was too scary for me - no guard rails and a major cliff about 1 ft away. I think was is nearly in tears the entire 5 miles of badness!

And of course blogger won't work for me to add pics, so I will have to do that another time - sorry!