Mother's Day and Downieville... again

Let me start by saying how AWESOME Friday night was.  We didn't do anything exciting BUT, we did have an awesome thunderstorm... with RAIN!  We got some snow during the past week but that all melted pretty quickly.  The thunder clouds started rolling in Friday afternoon.  We cooked dinner and sat at our table which is next to the window.  We just sat and watched it storm.  It was SO nice.

Saturday morning we woke up early, fixed breakfast (grits, bacon and eggs... yum) and then headed back out to Downieville so that I could ride the mountain bike trail.  It's 16 miles of downhill-ish biking (there's some climbing involved, but not much).  It was awesome.  We had just enough time to eat a burger and fries for lunch, then took the shuttle back up to the truck and headed for home.

GLAD I DIDN'T NEED THAT BACKBOARD! 

THERE'S A SWING ON THE TRAIL

THE TRAIL FOLLOWS THE BEAUTIFUL YUBA RIVER

SUCH BEAUTIFUL WATER!

Sunday morning I woke up early (on the one day I could've slept in... ridiculous).  We had breakfast... went to church... and then went paddleboarding on Fallen Leaf Lake and Lily Lake.  Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures though.  Not even 1 single picture.  Oops.  It was a beautiful day.  We were excited to paddle Fallen Leaf because it's usually too rough.  It was flat and calm...

... until we got out into the middle of the lake.  Then the winds picked up and created white caps (small ones... but still).  We sat on someone's dock for a while, waiting on the wind to die down. There house was all boarded up so we figured we were ok borrowing their dock for a few minutes.  When the wind didn't die down as quickly as we hoped, we paddled back, and drove a little further down the road to Lily Lake.

Lily Lake is beautiful but small, and much less clean/clear.  It's a little murky but it was full of wildlife... geese and their babies... huge beaver dams and some small little dams that created a wetland effect.  Plus, you're surrounded by HUGE mountains that still have a little bit of snow on them. It was nice.

We came home for lunch and talked with our moms to wish them a happy mother's day.  Then switched our boards for our bikes and headed out to ride a local trail with some friends.  Overall, it was a great weekend, full of adventures... just the way we like it.

To our mother's: Words can't even express how much you both mean to us.  You raised us to be the people we are today (and we think we're pretty awesome).  I'm so grateful for your support and encouragement.  Thank you for being a wonderful role model to me.   If we ever settle down and if we are blessed enough to have children of our own, I hope I can be half the mother that you two were to us.  We love you dearly.  We miss you so much but we appreciate your support.