My mom and dad rented out this cabin over by Heber in this area called Timberlakes Estates or something like that. It's surprisingly close to Heber itself yet you feel far away from anything. This is in no small part attributed to the long dirt road you eventually run into halfway up the mountain. I'm usually leary about places at the end of dirt roads but this place didn't match that stereotype.
Deck with a view of the hottub, hooray for hotubs!
When we first arrived I was impressed by how big the place was. The master bedroom was on the main floor and had a master bath with a jetted tub. There were two rooms upstairs that each had a queen-size bed as well as a twin. There were two more bedrooms in the basement that had a similar setup except one of them had this funky bunkbed where the bottom was a queen and I think the top was a full... not sure. The kitchen was huge with an island, large table and state-of-the-art appliances. Upstairs didn't have much going on except a near empty living room with a 32-inch TV and a couch but downstairs had a huge HDTV, couches and a pool table. Just outside the main floor there was a huge deck that had a hottub.
My parents, Holly, Angela & I were the first to get up there (spouses included) so we got dibs on rooms. Me and Angela chose upstairs but Holly sort of wasn't allowed to have a room so Angela pushed out the extra bed into the living room so I don't think she minded too much. Blaise and Michelle showed up later (sans Jaysen) and we had dinner.
I'll be honest, for the first two days we did a lot of nothing. For some people that's a bad thing but for me, if I'm on vacation, I'm there to do nothing. I didn't sit around and pick my nose though, Holly brought her Guitar Hero III game setup, Blaise and I brought our laptops for some Warcraft III LANnage and of course there's the hottub and all that. I can't speak for Leslie but I'm pretty sure Gavin was just loving life. Our home is pretty small with a tiny backyard so he loved being able to wander around the deck and watch all the different people doing different things and that kid loves watching people more than doing things himself.
I am, therefore I game. Me and Holly playing Warcraft III DotA maps. She wasn't half bad actually.
The hottub was pretty nice except if water kept splashing out on the one side where the controls were, it would trip the breaker and then no more bubbles. We didn't figure this out until the 2nd day there. It's not all bad except that breaker also happened to control the central air so it was a bit hot that first night.
Michelle had to work part of Friday but when she came back she brought Jaysen with her. That night we did psuedo-family pictures since it's hard to get everyone together but we didn't hire anyone to do them. I haven't personally seen the resulting pictures but I at least got some fun pics taken with my camera in our picture taking clothes. We also had this talent show thingy that my mom wanted us to prepare for before we arrived. Leslie wasn't sure at first and I was so rusty on my guitar we almost didn't do anything but mom said to just tell a joke or something. We took her advice and found a few jokes. Leslie told one I had in my work emails and I remembered one I had heard before and found again.
One of these days Gavin is going to think this pose is normal for picture taking.
The best part of the talent show was when my dad was doing his "pushing invisible needles into his hands" and "swallowing his eyeballs" tricks (you'll have to ask about those later, I can do the first but the 2nd is totally my dad's). Poor Gavin wasn't quite sure about what grandpa was doing to his hand. In the middle of his act Gavin asks us, "Grandpa hurt?" and then when he did the eyeball thing, he turned away and started crying. We're all horrible people apparantly coz we just laughed and tried to help him realize grandpa's eyes were still there. I'm still not sure he understood the reality of that trick... might need to ask dad how he does that.
Grandpa can suck in his eyeballs!
Gavin doesn't think it's that great of a trick. Give it a few more years son, you'll like it.
I won't bore you with the details of my gaming exploits while we were there or the drive home but I really enjoyed myself. I'm not sure how long our family could get away with renting one place and cramming all of us in there but for a family our size, crazy fun.
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