We just got back from a long weekend in Pioneer. (Where? Here.) Amanda’s mom has a friend with a cabin there, and we got to stay there for frees. Actually “cabin” is a misnomer, but there’s no word that means “really really nice and well-equipped house that just happens to be in the woods”, so we’ll just stick with “cabin.” The drive up was a bit of a nightmare (seriously, people, stop skipping out on work on Fridays and clogging up the freeways), but once we got there, it was tons of fun. I got to go blackberry picking for the first time, where we filled up two tupperwares with big fat juicy blackberries, and swimming in a lake for the second time. I wised up and wore my Tevas during swimming, though, as I have a bit of a phobia of touching unknown things in water with my feet. Yes, that’s a very specific phobia, but blame bad 80s movies. We also went on a really nice 9-mile hike to Showers Lake, which also happened to be part of the Pacific Crest Trail.

Besides the outdoorsy activities, there was a lot of lounging, reading, knitting (started a new project, but can’t say what it is because the recipient reads this page… could it be YOU?), and watching of Planet Earth.

I have only one more day of vacation before heading back to work. Boo…