Our family has never been to Big Bear Lake, despite it only being a couple hours from our home. We were excited to be invited to be invited to our friend's cabin along with what he calls the "Finlay Tribe".
We dealt with some traffic (as expected heading East out of LA for a 3 day weekend), but made it up to the cabin in time to join everyone for a late dinner.
We brought up our tent to camp outside the cabin. The days were warm and the nights were perfectly crisp.
The girls had a sleep over with Uncle Ian, while the boys slept in our tent.
The kids loved warming up by the fire in the mornings.
We were spoiled with Hasan's Middle Eastern cooking. He taught us how to make his delicious hummus and cucumber salad.
Every meal was a feast.
He had the men in the kitchen helping prepare the food. Breakfast included potatoes, eggs with goat cheese, bacon, sausage and every kind of bread for toast you could think of.
The guys assembled a new grill to be able to cook up all the meat.
Grilled chicken, lamb, steak and hamburgers...the grill was broken in quite well in its first couple of days of use.
The days were perfect for getting out to explore the area. We enjoyed a hike to the "Eye of the Gods" (despite passing it and taking a round about way of getting back.)
We enjoyed the Alpine Slides so much on Saturday that we convinced Hasan and Deborah to come try them with us on Monday. (They were busy meal prepping Saturday while the Finlay Tribe all went out)
There was plenty to keep us busy while at the cabin. Preston loved building 'obstacle courses' with the blocks, and dice to try to get a bell to ring.
Which then turned into building a tower as tall as possible using every item in the house. :)
James created a movie to capture the weekend of fun.
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