Earthquakes and Big Bear Arrival

We have felt our first earthquake at about 11pm on Wednesday night. It measured 3.6 on the scale. Clare thought Jill was playing a trick on her, I thought the bathroom door was connected to the bed and Jeffrey saw the lights move. So we survived!!!!

Thursday morning RickHarrick met us at the hotel and whilst the luggage only just fitted, Rickey who came to say hi decided to help us move up the mountain. The scenery was amazing as we climbed the mountain and its really picturesque.

Big Bear Lake is a town on about 6000 permanent residents which swells to about 100,000 on long weekends, summer weekends and snow season. It feels wierd to see slopes without snow. We went to Hacienda Grill for lunch and then spent time with host families etc.

We attended the Big BearClub meeting which has about 90 members and Anne Zimmerman (my host sister, she looks to young to be a host mum, even though she has five boys between 25 and 13), is the first female president.

It was a great night and Kit Davis, one of the US team that came to WA was also there. I even got to see a beautiful little 4 month dacchie named Ruby.

We are really looking forward to the weekend and going hiking and boating and spending time in this beautiful town.