A few of our friends from travel group (cô chú Minh, cô Annie, cô Lệ, chú Phước, chị Tina) were camping at Dogwood campsite in Lake Arrowhead; and they invited us to join them but being pregnant I would not feel comfortable sleeping in the tent so we decided to go there early in the morning and then leave in the evening.

It took 2 hours driving to the camp site from Santa Ana; they only allow 2 cars per site (site #20, #25) and max of 8 people per site.  They charged $56.00 for 2 nites/camp site, plus we have to pay entrance fee of $5.00 a day (if we visit friends for only 15 minutes then they won’t charge).

Besides trees and dirt; there’s nothing else. Oh there are LOTS of small bees which gather around our foods and us while we were eating which is really annoying.  They only came when there’s foods on the table, especially meat.  Did not know bees like meat!

After lunch and a short nap, we went to the Lake Arrowhead village: there’s an outlet around the lake with a few brand names like Coach, Bass, etc. There’s also Mac Donald, Subway and a few coffee shops.  We stopped at McDonald for restroom break and had some ice cream.

Ice cream tasted so good in a hot summer afternoon

Tim is shopping around!

Lake Arrowhead Village

At the end of the village there’s a small playground for kids: a go-kart, merry-go-round and little train which goes around the village.  There are other water activities like Kayaking, Cruise around the lake ($16.00/adult for 50 minutes ride) , jet ski, etc.

We left the village around 5:30Pm after 2 hours of walking around the village to head back to the camp site which is only 3 miles away. At this time the shops are starting to close up, not sure if it’s because Sunday that they close early?

We had dinner here (white rice with shrimp scampi, bamboo soup) before leaving the camp and headed home.  We got home about 8PM; tired but had fun!