Camping Trip

We spent the weekend in Mammoth. We didn't have anything specific planned and ended up not doing much, just a lot of relaxing and watching the girls play. Our normal days in Ridgecrest are usually hectic and scheduled, so it was very nice to just sit and do nothing. Even during the relaxation, we were still able to have dinner at our favorite restaurant, do some exploring of the area (we're looking for the "lost cement mine"--more on that later), and even a little fishing. I am still reeling a little from this picture of Melina--did we actually let her get that dirty??? Poor Isabelle being the first child never would have been able to play in the dirt like this, but we simply stuck Melina in the dish tub and used the outside shower to get her clean with hardly a cry on her part. Melina really enjoyed filling this green toy in her hand with pebbles and sand and then pouring it out, over and over.





Isabelle had some fun too. We went to Deadman Creek where Jeff and I hiked when we were dating. There was a really nice pool of water in the creek that looked very inviting, so Isabelle got to go swimming. And to her amazement, she found lots of dead caterpillars in the water too, which are now in our freezer!!--yuck! :).