Hume Lake
The summer of July 2011, my family and I went to Hume Lake. My brother’s birthday was going to be on July 15th. We were going to go camping in Sequoia National Park and visit my brother, Cameron who lives there. The ride there was long… almost four hours. I got a really good nap out of all that. I listened to music
too. I watched all the stuff go by out the window. There were a lot of orchards,
and bushes, and trees, and houses, and dirt, and mountains. That’s about the time I got bored and fell asleep.
When we finally got there, my brother was waiting patiently for us at our campsite. He helped us set up. He visited every day until we had to go home. We saw the lake and rode our bikes around it. My brother drove us around on the small twisting roads, showing us his current house, Joshua Lodge, and some of his friends. My favorite place was the general
shop. It had this SUPER delicious ice cream, pink lemonade ice cream. When you
walked out of the general shop, you could see the Lake. It was glistening in the
sun.
After all that we went back to our campsite. We had brought some chips with us. When we opened the lid, the seal looked like a balloon about to pop. We were higher up in elevation where there is less air so the can filled up with more air. We set up a hammock between two tall pine trees. It was very relaxing to lie there and look up at the prickly pine trees and the clear sky. At night, we would sit out and look at the stars. Since we were higher up, we were closer to the sky and the stars were really bright and shiny. We looked for satellites. Satellites move as fast as an airplane, but look like stars. We also were roasting marshmallows. I didn’t like roasting them because they were so gooey and sticky. So I just raided the bag. At night, we went to sleep in our pop-up camper. My family has had it for years. I can’t really describe the smell, but it didn’t smell bad. There was a faint smell that smelled like my grandma’s house. I woke up to the best smell in the world, BACON. I got dressed and ran outside the camper to where my dad was cooking breakfast on the compact stove. I wanted to eat it all, but I had to save some for the rest of my family. After that, we rode our bikes around Hume Lake. If you looked closely, youcould see some cottages through the trees. I didn’t really see any animals besides the ducks on the lake and birds. It was neat sitting by the lake. You could see a dam on the other end.
Finally came the day when we had to go home. I was sad. This place was almost like Disneyland! Except without the rides… and castles, and princesses; although, I can do just fine without the princesses. Hume Lake was so beautiful. I also didn’t want to leave my brother. The drive back was just as boring as the ride up, except the ride up was totally worth it. The ride back was also very depressing. Every mile I knew I was going further and further away from my brother. You would watch the mountains go back behind smaller mountains, and then hills. Hume Lake was one of the best experiences in my life and nothing has topped it, yet.
The summer of July 2011, my family and I went to Hume Lake. My brother’s birthday was going to be on July 15th. We were going to go camping in Sequoia National Park and visit my brother, Cameron who lives there. The ride there was long… almost four hours. I got a really good nap out of all that. I listened to music
too. I watched all the stuff go by out the window. There were a lot of orchards,
and bushes, and trees, and houses, and dirt, and mountains. That’s about the time I got bored and fell asleep.
When we finally got there, my brother was waiting patiently for us at our campsite. He helped us set up. He visited every day until we had to go home. We saw the lake and rode our bikes around it. My brother drove us around on the small twisting roads, showing us his current house, Joshua Lodge, and some of his friends. My favorite place was the general
shop. It had this SUPER delicious ice cream, pink lemonade ice cream. When you
walked out of the general shop, you could see the Lake. It was glistening in the
sun.
After all that we went back to our campsite. We had brought some chips with us. When we opened the lid, the seal looked like a balloon about to pop. We were higher up in elevation where there is less air so the can filled up with more air. We set up a hammock between two tall pine trees. It was very relaxing to lie there and look up at the prickly pine trees and the clear sky. At night, we would sit out and look at the stars. Since we were higher up, we were closer to the sky and the stars were really bright and shiny. We looked for satellites. Satellites move as fast as an airplane, but look like stars. We also were roasting marshmallows. I didn’t like roasting them because they were so gooey and sticky. So I just raided the bag. At night, we went to sleep in our pop-up camper. My family has had it for years. I can’t really describe the smell, but it didn’t smell bad. There was a faint smell that smelled like my grandma’s house. I woke up to the best smell in the world, BACON. I got dressed and ran outside the camper to where my dad was cooking breakfast on the compact stove. I wanted to eat it all, but I had to save some for the rest of my family. After that, we rode our bikes around Hume Lake. If you looked closely, youcould see some cottages through the trees. I didn’t really see any animals besides the ducks on the lake and birds. It was neat sitting by the lake. You could see a dam on the other end.
Finally came the day when we had to go home. I was sad. This place was almost like Disneyland! Except without the rides… and castles, and princesses; although, I can do just fine without the princesses. Hume Lake was so beautiful. I also didn’t want to leave my brother. The drive back was just as boring as the ride up, except the ride up was totally worth it. The ride back was also very depressing. Every mile I knew I was going further and further away from my brother. You would watch the mountains go back behind smaller mountains, and then hills. Hume Lake was one of the best experiences in my life and nothing has topped it, yet.