Big Bear Adventures

Like I mentioned in my last post, Hubs' current work schedule is about two weeks of very crazy hours in which he may or may not come home followed by two weeks of more regular office type hours.  He doesn't get weekend off during the first two weeks of this schedule so the Army is kind enough to give a 4 day weekend at the end.  Even though we are situated kind of in the middle of nowhere we are within driving distance to A LOT of neat places and have been trying to use the 4 days to explore a bit!

We have spent several weekends in Las Vegas, several in Pasadena, and several in what has quickly become our favorite "escape the desert" destination:  Big Bear, CA.  It is a cute little mountain tourist town that boasts a ski resort in the winter and a lake resort in the summer.  It is only 2 hours away from where we live but once we drive up the mountain and start to see green trees instead of brown sand it feels like we are worlds away.

Hubs discovered a historical little bed and breakfast that is our new "go to place".  It is complete with beautiful antiques, a huge game room, fireplaces in every bedroom, huge bathtubs for soaking in their homemade milk bath, and gourmet breakfasts.  Are you sold yet?!?  

One of our recent visit there we invited some friends of ours (friends from college who also happen to be here at Fort Irwin) to go with us.  It worked out well because they are pregnant too and us pregnant girls hung out while the guys when skiing.

It was a great weekend filled with relaxing and reading (although unfortunately most of mine was reading for school instead of for fun). 

 Our stay actually got extended an extra night thanks to a combination of a big snow storm and a road closures because of a man hunt in the area.  I'm not joking. . there was a random ex LA cop who went a little crazy and started killing people who just so happened to pick Big Bear to hid out in that very weekend.  The search for him even resulted in the shut down some of the skiing areas.  If you happened to be watching CNN that day you might have seen Hubs scowling in the background of the news cameras as a result of missing out on some of the larger ski slopes.

We weren't too heart broken about spending another day though and thankfully the fugitive didn't disturb us (he was discovered hiding out in a cabin about half a week later and died in a shoot out with the cops).  And it was a great treat for us involuntary desert dwellers to get to wake up to a beautiful snow that lasted all day and ended up totaling about 18 inches!

We hope to make it back for lots more visit to Big Bear during our time in California.  We would love to get more snow days there as well. . . but I think we could do without the fugitive man hunt part on future trips.

Oh. . and Baby Hayes hit 27 weeks during that weekend!