My fun weekend with the girls has come to an end. It’s crazy how fast times goes sometimes isn’t it?
What did we all do with our time? Well we ended up doing something this trip that we’ve never done before. Now over 35 years of heading north you would think we’ve seen it all right? Yea, not so much.
The opportunity for us to try something new came as we were driving down the lane to the cabin and with knowing that we were getting pretty close we were feeling pretty good about everything. Well that feeling only lasted for lets say about a minute. When we came around the corner we saw a tree across the road. Not so cool. But we soon found out that it was a rotten log and didn’t give us much trouble. Whew! A couple of hefty throws as a team sport and we got it off the path.
So we were off again and feeling pretty smug as we were getting closer to the final destination. But around the next corner was another tree down and this one was definitely not going anywhere. OK now we were not feeling so tough and with the time late in the night we had to figure out just what we were we going to do. We couldn’t really carry all our stuff up the lane and to the cabin so our only choice was to cut the tree apart. So through the woods us girls go and I was glad that we also had one of the girls dog with us. Now not like anything was going to get us but it kind of felt like the Wizard of Oz and going through the scary forest. I was happy that we only had pine trees and not apple trees like in the movie that grab people. Oh yea, and no flying monkeys either 🙂 But we had to get our hands on some tree cutting saws so down the path we go. Once we get our saws and our trusty flashlight on it was time to go back and tackle the tree. And guess what? With a lot of perseverance and teamwork we finally get it cut down and just like that we are Rock Stars!! Whoo Hoo The most trouble we had was trying to see what we were doing because the lights that we used to light up the area on the car kept timing out. But did I tell you yet that we are Rock Stars !! (just in case you missed it the first time)
Another challenge that we’ve had to do was to get the pontoon out on the lake and let me tell you that this is not an easy task. Honestly getting the tree cut down might have been easier than getting that pontoon into the water. But we’ve done this before in previous years and we knew that we were in for a challenge. We really worked on it a long time and when we finally got it almost into the water the choice of one of us jumping on the edge of it to try to rock it off the log in the lake while the others tried to push it over the hump turned out to be a good choice. And our very last try it actually went into the water. Thank Goodness! The reason that I say that is because we tie it up on the end of the dock so we don’t have to walk into the front water that has a lot of mud and silt in it. And I’m kind weird about the mud and silt stuff just to let you know.
We spent many hours floating on the lake
With those two big things done and the cabin ready for a fun couple of days we spent a lot of time on the warm lake soaking up the awesome sunshine. 
We found a good spot to hang our towels at the end of the day
One of the coolest things that we saw this weekend was there was a meteor shower in the sky.When you’re up north the stars seem just within reach of you and then add a ton of shooting stars that seemed so much brighter this weekend – well to say it was cool is an understatement.
Here are a couple of other pictures that I took over the weekend. The first one if the trusty Pacifica that not only took us girls up to the cabin safely, but also the dog and all our gear and food.
What a great car – Pacifica
Not sure what this is but it caught my eye on the outside of the cabin
One of the rooms in the cabin
And now that our ‘Fishing Trip’ is over and we once again forgot to fish 🙂 but it was great to stop everything and just eat a lot of good food, soak up a lot of sunshine, and have a very nice weekend with some great friends. Until next time…
A typical night sky at the cabin