8 miles

Tuesday May 16th 2006 05:45 PM PST

So on Sunday my mom didn't want to do the crazy Sunday Bunch crap for mother's day. She came up with the idea of a hike, and it sounded good to everybody. So my mom and dad showed up sunday morning with food for lunch. They had ran by bristol farms and the catering department had done a crazy job with the lunch. We ended up leaving most of the food here at home, while we packed wine, cheese and crackers and a bunch of other stuff to munch on. We headed up to the top of Windsor Rd overlooking JPL. There's a parking lot there and the road goes up into the arroyo. We started there and headed up. About a mile in the paved road ends and its a dirt road for about another mile. There were brides across the arroyo at some point in time. But many of the bridges are either collapsed or the arroyo has changed course so much that the bridge is 50 feet from where the water is now. It just means there are a lot of rock hops to cross water. And then a lot more rock hops to cross water, and then more rock hops to cross water on the way back. We got up to Paul Little Campground and sat down to eat. Its a nice little spot off the trail about 100 feet, and we ended up seeing maybe 2 other people the entire time we sat there. After we ate, we headed up-stream about another 100 yards to the waterfall. Now, this is not Switzer Falls. I once thought it was, but now have found out that Switzer is another six miles up-stream. BUT that being said, i have no idea what the name of this waterfall is, or if it has any "official" name. So we headed back down to the car, and back home. It took us about 4 hours total, and we were all dead tired when we got back. BUT we still had food waiting for us. We hung out at the house here for awhile and then mom and dad went home. Jen and I crashed for a couple hours and then i got up to play some WOW. Jen headed over to her dad's house to hong out with them for while. We both missed the final episode of West Wing, and we crashed again hard that night. I woke up Monday morning feeling like i had been run over by a bus.