Lakeside at Lake Arrowhead... our first day adventure

View of the lake from our hotel room

After an easy hour and ten minute drive on the flat freeway, we reached the base of the San Bernardino mountains and began our 20 minute incline to Lake Arrowhead. The first 7 or so minutes of the canyon twists and turns were not so bad... and then as the mountains opened up and my passenger side which was closest to the cliffs of the road had me feeling like we were going over the edge at every turn, I suddenly became terrified, no PARALYZED with fear.

If I distracted myself with my iPhone, I was okay, until I felt sick from the roller-coaster-like-twists. But in all actuality, it really wasn't that bad. I think I was nervous to begin with and I think my last experience up a road like this years ago wasn't a pleasant one, so I equated the two into one insane scenario, which of course ended in our unfortunate and untimely deaths.

And then we reached the top, and the 20 minutes of terror were just a distant memory. We drove slowly through the mountain town a little fearful that it was in fact, smaller than we had originally thought, but once we hit the Lake Arrowhead Resort we quickly realized that was just the outskirts of Lake Arrowhead and there was a whole village to explore in the woods.

We settled into our suite and decided to venture out and walk down to the lake to take in all that Lake Arrowhead had to offer {in the Summer, of course} and god was it beautiful... I mean breathtakingly, stunningly, awe-inspiringly beautiful.

Almost immediately we began wondering how on earth we would ever decide what to do with all this beauty around us. Before we had even begun our house hunt, we were terrified and excited at the idea of actually moving there -because we knew we couldn't not.




sun hitting the resort






benches on the trail alongside the lake


excited giggles


leisurely hammocks on the trail




beachfront














so much love




delish berry mojito with dinner... Cheers!


* In the coming days I'll be posting more about our little trip to Lake Arrowhead including our search for a house.

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