Small waterfall near Parcher Resort, South Lake

Sun 10/8/2017.

Today’s plan was to visit all 3 lakes today: north lake, Sabrina & South Lake.  North lake to me is ok; Sabrina is nice with a long  walkway along the lake; South lake drive is beautiful with lots of yellow leaves but the lake itself is not that impressive.

We left hotel around 9:30 AM.  On the way to North Lake, we stopped by Convict Lake first; the leaves here are past peek; and it was hard to find a parking space.  We let William sat on the wagon but he didn’t like it; he cried and tried to run back to the car.  Out of blue, this nice man who was fishing saw him and gave him a little Mickey Mouse toy.  William loved it enough that he sat quietly in the wagon and played with the new toy with a smile on his face. (Lesson learned: need to bring toys to calm him down during crisis like this).  We had a little talk with another man who was fishing there too.  Later ,his wife told him to show William the fishes that he caught; and let William touched it.  We all laughed at William’s reaction after touching the fishes: he did not like it.  We stayed here until noon; then had lunch in the car before continuing our way to North Lake.

So we headed to Bishop, stopped by Carl’s Jr. again to buy lunch for William, he only ate french fries; refused to eat the hot dog or cheese burger.  Yesterday the lake at Cardinal Resort was so beautiful that I decided to go back and take a few more pictures.  Then we headed to North Lake for real this time.  The road to North Lake is rough and narrow; we have to watch out for other cars coming from other directions.   There are not that many aspen trees around the lake as we hoped so we only spent a few minutes here, took a few pictures and then head for Sabrina Lake which is near by.

I like this lake, it looks more like Big Bear Lake with a little island in the middle of the lake; there’s a cafe and long walk way with the handle bar along the lake which I think is really nice.  We let William sat on the stroller; and because the walkway is full of gravel, Tim could not push the stroller so he turned around and PULL the stroller instead.  William loved this; he laughed out loud so much that everyone stared at us :).

Left Sabrina Lake, we made a right turn from hwy 168 to get to South Lake.  The road to South Lake is so beautiful with lots of aspen trees.  Too bad it was getting dark that the sun could not hit the tree; otherwise it’d be so much more beautiful.  Near the Parcher Resort, there’s a small stream that was nice with few branches of aspen trees framed the since.  We stopped here to take a few pictures before heading to the lake.

Finally we reached the South Lake but the lake itself is not that impressive compared to Convict Lake.  It was getting so cold because of the wind so I only took a quick walk along the lake while Tim & William stayed in the car.

Left South Lake around 5:30 PM; the sky was starting to get dark.  The hwy 168 now seemed so long.

When we got back to the hotel, it was totally dark.  William only slept for 1/2 hour for nap during noon so after dinner, we let him went straight to bed. After finished his milk bottle, he felt asleep with the bottle still in his mouth.  At home he would not fall asleep that easy.

Dinner: Chao ga for William; we had Bun Bo Hue which I bought at Quan Hy in Westminster one day before we left for Bishop.