Wow, Where to start?! Most of my family came up on Tuesday before Christmas and the fun started. We had lunch in the dining hall, got settled in the cabins, then headed up to Joshua to hang out and have dinner. The kids played in the snow and in the big open spaces of the Great room and Joshua dining room. We enjoyed each other's company and looked forward to having Josh and Heather and Jeremy show up. Then, the snow started falling, and falling and falling. Everyone had made it for Christmas day, where we had a fantastic breakfast, opened gifts, played, had a wonderful lunch, played some more, had a nice dinner, then the kids acted out the Christmas story while I read it and we had a time of sharing. Because of the weather, we had moved everyone to either Joshua or the lower cabin, so as we cleaned things up and were getting ready to take off for the night, the power went out. This is not uncommon in a storm, so Rich went to start the generater at the cabin. Everyone headed home and planned on meeting for breakfast at 8:30 so Jeremy could get on the road at a decent time. Well, at our house, we slept just fine and about 8am went to pick up the crew from the cabin. Rich went in and then came back out and said they were all sick. So we went up to see the Joshua crew to see if anyone up there was sick, well, no one was, so we began to brainstorm. It must be something with the cabin, for everyone there to be so sick, but no one else. Clearly not food poisoning like we had initially thought. Rich and I headed to the cabin to help out, when I walked in, everyone was strewn across the house, laying on the floor, huddled in blankets, with bowls near by, no one could stand, they all looked so miserable. I tried to make everyone comfortable the best I could while cleaning things up, and Rich went to seek help and get a CO detector. When he brought it in, it went off immediatly so we had everyone crawl to the open door and windows to get some fresh air. Rich returned again with help and the news that we really needed everyone to go to the infimary and probably down to Fresno to get checked out. So we began to get coats and boots and get people down the steep, snow covered stairs in their foggy state. Most everyone had some time on the oxygen in the infirmiry and then a couple went down in the ambulance and everyone else road down with Rich or Dad to the hospital. Only the ones with remaining symptoms went in, and the rest either came back up or hung at Rob's house to rest and wait for the 3 to get released. Everyone was back up at around 10:30pm when we decided to have a little birthday party for Josiah, (my nephew, some birthday so far!). Then we settled in for the night, cleaned up in the morning and everyone left just as they had planned. Whew! What an adventure, what a crazy, memorable Christmas! Everyone says that they had a fun time, despite the almost dying, and that they would even come back to Hume Lake again sometime. Such troopers! I loved seeing every single one of them, only wished Jonathan's family could have made it, and that I had taken more pictures!
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