Burney Falls

This weekend, as per tradition, we went camping at Burney Falls. It's a nice little state park between Mt. Shasta and Lassen, about 50 miles east of Redding, CA. I loved finally being there with Jon and my kids. We all had a ton of fun hiking and fishing and just enjoying the outdoors.

Dawna had a new fishing pole she got for her birthday, and she loved dropping the little fish into a little dribble of water off or Hatchet Creek:



Papa Severson loved helping the little girls do "tricks" by balancing on rocks and walking on logs:



This was Dawna and Adele's last hurrah together. Em and I realized that their time living in the same house has been bookended by camping and lake trips--last July they were together in Yosemite; and last weekend in Burney (I thought I had a picture of the two of them together in Yosemite, but I don't, but here's a compare and contrast picture anyway... amazing how much different they both look):





Anyway, all in all, it was a great weekend! Poor Jon now has to face up to his extra busy week. But as a true graduate student, he just accepts guilt as an inherent feature of relaxation :) He even caught a couple fish while we were up there :)