Lake Arrowhead

After North Carolina, I had a couple of nights in LA before the Lake Arrowhead

going away party/ Greenman's birthday party.  What a great lake this was.

Reminded me of the Pacific Northwest when we headed up highway 18 off of

Interstate 10.  It went from desert to forest real fast and it was not a bad

drive at all from the city.  The house we rented was beautiful and spacious.  3

stories of floor space, king size beds, rooms, and two decks connecting.  We had

our own dock that we could walk down to for swimming and laying out.  Our two

decks also had views of the lake and the neighbor's boats.  It was a very nice

lake house.  Jeff, Mike, and I arrived Friday night to meet Joe, Shelby, and

Chris.  I won an 18 game Scattergories game with 3 games to Mike and Jeff's 1

game each.  I still don't think Tapestry is a school subject.  We into the night

and the next day the rest of the calvary showed up.

The best part about this Lake Arrowhead trip, besides the laughing, dancing, and

invisible jump ropes to California Girls, was the ICINGS.  Thanks to Freddie and

Sean in North Carolina, along with the college scene reaching us late 20 year

olds in Southern California, we were able to apply what we had learned to ICE

one another.  The first Icing was Emily getting Brandmire in the hot tub where

whe offered cold beers and Mike reached in to only pull out a Smirnoff Ice.  The

second Icing was me dangling a Smirnoff Ice one story down off of a balcony with

a telephone cord I found upstairs in the loft. Placed that guy right behind

Kelsey's head and had Jeff and Jayme in on it to get her attention once the ICE

had been set.  It made me laugh in a way that Jayme said "I love it when McLeod

laughs like that" so it must have been great :) The third Icing was placed by me

and Jeff and was in the barbecue.  I said numerous times "I trust Joe to light

the grill...Joe is good with grills, etc," and sure enough, Joe went out and as

I followed with my camera, Joe lifted up the grill hood to only find a SMIRNOFF

ICE.  I know this sounds childish but I guess after 15 years of having fun with

alcohol it is great to find new and creative ways to entertain ourselves.  The

fourth Icing, I believe, was on me (which I stated after Joe's I would never be

ICED to everyone), which was a great job by Kelsey to get me in to something I

am passionate about (changing the song on the laptoP).  I picked up on it right

away and was hesitant to enter the living room to change the song...but once I

saw that there was no Smirnoff Ice next to my laptop, I was not reluctant to go

over and change to the song she wanted.  Sure enough there was and ICE right on

the ground below the little entertainment center.  ICED!  Couldn't believe it

after calling it.

The next ICING was also a hanger through the stairwell as

Emily was dragged in by Kelsey (who was in on it) to go in the batroom because

she "needed to talk to her immediately."  She came out of the bathroom and

walked right into and ICE.  Dolan was also Iced when he went for his toiletries

bag in the bathroom, as well as Jones being ICED as we hid one under the

football in the couch cushions and had him 'throw the ball to me.'  Oh yeah, I

forgot that Ashlee got ICED by Jeff and I putting one in the microwave and me

telling her that the avocados she heated up in the bag earlier melted the

plastic inside.  ICED upon microwave door opening.  Later that night we had some

great and serious games of flip cup (thanks to the underage neighbors that lent

us the rectangle table).  We also played "Teach Me How To Dougie" a bunch and

the night culmanated with the invisible jumprope that I taught to people (thank

you Lyndsay and Kristen in North Carolina).  Everyone did a little double dutch

and the night went into hot tubbing and dancing.  Ended the night sleeping well

downstairs :)  Great going away as I will miss all of these people dearly.