Jenks Lake hike

Eric had the weekend off so we decided to do a family hike.  Online Eric found a hike in the San Bernardino mountains that was only about 2 miles long and had a lake at the end. So we headed up the mountain.  It was much colder then I expected, we actually walked past a couple of little patches of snow still on the ground. 

Ruby and Lucy loved all the different types of moss and collected samples of all of them. 

Ruby was finding lots of little rocks to add to her rock collection at home. She kept dropping then in the hood of her sweatshirt.

The funniest part of the hike was when we finally made it up to the lake there were several people fishing and a parking lot right next to the lake.  Haley looked at the parking lot and said "You mean we could have just DRIVEN up here... why did you made us hike it?" She was a little bugged.

The girls and Eric ventured out onto a fallen tree in the middle of the lake. I was sure someone was going to fall in the freezing water, but Eric and Ruby came back completely dry.  Haley and Lucy both had one soggy shoe and pant leg. They were trying to pass each other and had a little complication.

Towards the end of the hike Ruby had found so many beautiful rocks her arms were full.  It looked like we were punishing her filling her arms with big rocks and making her climb a mountain, but she refused to put any down and carried them all the way to the car. 

After the hike we went to A&W at the bottom of the mountain and got root beer floats. With all the complaining we heard on the hike, when Lucy was drinking her float she said "This is the best day ever!".