The Morgan Family Vacation Part III (The End!)

The last part of our vacation:

After exploring old Mammoth City and the stamp mill we headed into town to get the keys for a 2-night stay in a condo (shower here we come!). We checked in uneventfully and unpacked and settled into our new place while I got the girls in the bathtub. Needless to say, there were no sheets on the beds, trash bags in the kitchen, or even towels, but this didn't seem to register to anyone until after 5 p.m. when the rental office had already closed. We called and it turned out they had made a mistake and we were supposed to be in a DIFFERENT unit, not the one we had just basically moved into. So... I continued bathing the girls while Jeff and Mike laboriously packed the cars up again, but this time, because of our trouble, we were upgraded to a very beautiful condo up the street (Isabelle told us later, however, that she liked the first condo because "the couch was soft"--go figure!).
The condo was upstairs, and what toddler wouldn't love climbing stairs? Melina sure does make my heart jump into my throat many a time though, as she has NO FEAR!
After settling into that place, the rest of us got our showers (both girls were angels despite of the late hour and not having eaten dinner yet), and then we all finally went out to eat. It was late, about 8:30, so while we waited for a table at Slocum's, Melina fell asleep in the sling. It was Isabelle's first "fancy" restaurant, and maybe it was the late hour or she was still in angel mode, but she did great and Melina slept the entire time! The food was delicious too! Back to the condo and to bed! On a side note, Thursday while still camping, we were inside eating dinner while Isabelle played outside with a couple of "glow" necklaces. She came into the trailer and said that one of them felt wet. It was and slowly dripping on her hands. It looked like it was on her face too, so we turned off the light and sure enough she had some on her glasses and under her left eye. I quickly cleaned her up and we immediately noticed a red welt under the same eye. We assumed it was a reaction to the fluorescent liquid and thought nothing else of it. The next morning, however, the red welt was now very swollen and inflamed, and we could see what looked like a bug bite (Jeff thought that perhaps the bug was attracted to the fluorescent light and bit her during that time). An antihistamine didn't help, but she didn't seem very bothered by it, it wasn't itchy, etc. Her eye became more swollen throughout the day and by evening looked like this:

Beautiful flowers growing outside of our condo (next to a golf course).
Saturday morning Isabelle's eye was even more swollen (she looked like an oriental girl), but still not bothersome, so I loaded her up with Zyrtec, we grabbed breakfast and lunch for the road, and headed out to now "officially"be cement hunters (remember this post?). We had a beautiful day and an indescribable view. We drove to the top of Deadman Pass, about 10,000 feet, very high above Red's Meadow.
We hiked down into this saddle and contemplated where the family from the "Lost Cement Mine" story might have camped.
We drove down a little ways and stopped for lunch with this magnificent view. We could see Mono Lake on our left and Crowley on our right.
Did we find the "Lost Cement Mine" you might ask. Well, do you think we'd say anything if we had???

Saturday evening brought us to dinner at Perry's, another very yummy restaurant in Mammoth.

Sunday morning we checked out of the condo, headed back to our trailer (we left it at Glass Creek for the 2 nights in the condo) while Mike did some shopping in Mammoth, packed up, and we were in Bishop for a late lunch at one of our favorites, Schat's Bakery, for delicious sandwiches! We made it home around 4 p.m., and oh, how good it feels to be at home!

Home, Sweet, Home!!