Mammoth Camping - Day 1

"Are we almost there yet?"

"How much longer?"

"When are we going to see Haylee and McKenzie?"

Those were the top three questions coming from Hannah's direction of the car today. The drive to Mammoth Lakes takes about 5 hours and most of it is through the desert, the ugly, brown, and dry desert. Not much to look out at. The DVD players we bought the girls for Christmas have most certainly been put to good use. I purchased two new movies for our trip, both in which Hannah sat glued to. We arrived at our campsite shortly before 1:00 and Hannah was off to play with McKenzie and Haylee. Shortly after Daddy had our tent up, Hannah was able to talk him into taking the four girls on a squirrel hunt. The campground, Pine Glen, has a ton of little chipmunks and baby squirrels roaming about. They are so much fun to watch.The rest of the afternoon was spent relaxing by the adults, and playing by the kids. The most exciting thing to happen today was during dinner, we had just sat down and all this commotion started coming from the campsite next to us, there was a bear roaming the campground. The girls were already in the trailer with Auntie, and stayed there until the bear was deemed okay to take a look at, but Hannah wanted no part in that. She stayed with Auntie in the trailer. After dinner, Hannah was so excited to get into her jammies and settle into Auntie and Uncle Robbie's new trailer to watch a movie. The trailer is such a novelty and Hannah was excited to know a movie could be watched, however, once all the makings for smores were brought out, she was the first one out of that trailer to roast a marshmallow or two. Once completely dark, I gave the girls each a little lantern I had bought for them. We hung one from the center of the tent and they crawled into bed, ending the day with yet another question, "What are we doing tomorrow?".

To see all the pictures from our Mammoth Camping trip, please go to Mammoth Camping Part 1 and Mammoth Camping Part 2.