Yippeeee!!!

Leaving for Lake Tahoe today--a much needed escape, break, rest, etc. This was a picture from our trip last year. We camped in our favorite State Park, D.L. Bliss,  and was visited by a mama bear and her baby cub on the last night. I, ummm, left the bear locker open while we were sitting around the campfire and she just sniffed sniffed her way on up to the open invitation and helped herself till I spotted her 10 feet away and uh, freaked out!  The rest of the story is a long one that included some amazing feats by my husband involving his big manly roar, mag light and axe. Let's just say that it took a while, but the mama bear and baby bear came down from their trees which were in our campsite.  No, Scott did not use the axe to chop down their trees, we just turned off all our flashlights, sat in the silence and waited. It was pretty cool to hear the mama speak to her baby (see their claw marks in the trees the next morning). All this chaos and my kids were snoring like logs, in our tent...which was in the middle of it all. (Now you know why Scott was wielding the axe.) 

So we are off today, not to camp this time, but to stay at a friend's Tahoe cabin. Did I tell you that the bears break in to the houses there? Not. Kidding.

p.s. see you in a week...