A few months ago a few friends and myself reserved AirStream trailers in Santa Barbara for a mini getaway weekend in November. They were vintage airstreams that were refurbished and looked AWESOME in the pictures online. But in September, while we were IN Santa Barbara for our girls run weekend we just so happened to drive past the AirStream trailer park and THANK GOD we did. Lets just say that ended up in us cancelling our reservations because the place was NOT what they portrayed on the internet.
So we had that weekend open again. Luckily my friend Heather found an AMAZING 5 bedroom cabin in Lake Arrowhead that was reasonably priced and available for that weekend. What are the odds?!? Why Lake Arrowhead you ask…well I can’t drive all the way up that mountain without throwing up SO Lake Arrowhead was the right distance to make me feel sick but not barf! And yes I am the driver but I get car sick even driving…no bueno!
Here are a few pics of our amazing home away from home.
Please don’t judge…I took these after we had been there over 24 hours…so it was kinda like a BOMB went off in some places. But we were on vacation, ya know?!? (winkie face)
You walk into the middle level that has a living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom.
Amazing fireplace right?!?
Had a large kitchen table that seated all 13 of us!
The babies chuggin’ their yogurt smoothies…I lub them.
Our main balcony had an A-MAZ-ING view of the lake. And a few of the rooms had their own separate balconies too.
The level UP had the awesome master bedroom with the amazing bath tub…and a loft with a bed as well. I didn’t get pictures of the bedroom or loft….kinda forgot. But you KNOW I got one of lil diva Ella livin’ it up in the jacuzzi tub!
The first level down had 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and the laundry room.
One bedroom had a full bed, bunk beds and a full bath. The other bedroom had a full bed and amazing fireplace. The guest bathroom in the hallway was SO awesome!! It had the coolest shower I have ever used before in my life!! And the third bedroom had a full bed (that was Ella’s bedroom where she slept in her pack-n-play).
Next level down had the playroom AND wine cellar! So cool huh.
It was one of the easiest weekends in a long time. Zero fights between the kids, everyone was on the same relaxed vacation mode…it was nice! We cooked all our meals at home minus the last morning breakfast when a McDonalds run was in order. On the Saturday after naps we went into the Village for a bit…on a mission to try and get nice family x-mas card pics. Like a dummy, I didn’t bring cute outfits for a holiday picture BUT thats ok. It was a fun chaotic adventure to find a place suitable. I admire Heather’s patience!
Did you know the Lake Arrowhead village is like an outlet mall?? They had a bunch of outlet stores, Coach, Bass, Tervis, Famous Footwear! I was shocked all that was up there. We may or may not have bribed some of the kids to take nice pictures in exchange for a treat at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory…heehee. 
It was such a nice weekend away with great friends. Evenings consisted of men cooking, kids playing and mama’s relaxing…my kinda style.
We even had adult time to play some good hearted board games (btw, Battle of the Sexes…such a bullshit game!! The guys couldn’t even answer their own male questions and the girl questions were a joke…anyone would know them! And so what if us girls lost!! lol I’m totally not bitter.) We stayed up way past our bedtimes and enjoyed ourselves. It was fun. (winkie face) 
The mornings were nice too… 
When we felt the cabin fever setting in we brought the kids for a walk around the neighborhood…only down fall of this cabin…it wasn’t very close to the lake. But the kids didn’t seem to mind all that much.
Climbing the steep hill back to our cabin…it wasn’t easy!
I loved this weekend. Thank you so much Heather for finding this hidden gem!!! We enjoyed ourselves and Owen hasn’t stopped asking when we are going back to “our cabin”.
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