Taking a Vacation From Vacation

Yes, I know I’ve been on vacation for the last six months, but it’s still nice to get a vacation here and there. Since June 13, I’ve been on my family’s annual vacation up in the Sierras. We’re staying at the Feather River Park Resort for the 35th time. I was two months old the very first time we came up here and we’ve been coming ever since.

We look forward to this trip every year starting around January. In my mind, it’s a perfect family vacation – time with the family, time in the sun by the pool, time spent hiking and playing golf, time spent relaxing and reading, good food, and really, it’s just nice to be able to get away from it all. We get a couple of really good mafia games going each year, build a puzzle (this year it was a photomosaic puzzle of Elvis), sometimes play an epic Risk game and in general, just have an awesome time with the family.

I’m actually leaving today which is really sad, but after a couple weeks, I think I’m ready to embark on my cross country driving adventure.

This year, I went on four hikes (I’ll post pictures and videos from two of them) and played four rounds of golf. The snow levels up here were the highest I’ve seen in the last 20 years. I’d say highest ever, but I can’t remember some of the earlier years of my life. We had to abort one of our hikes because the trail was completely covered up by snow.

Anyway, I need to close this post up since I’m starting to fall asleep.