My Inner Tish

For the 4th of July Kevin and I were invited to his grandpa's cabin on Waitt's Lake (I think that's how you spell it). It was so beautiful, see the above picture, and just the break I needed. Plus Kevin's mom, dad and brother came up from Twin so we got to see them too.

This is his grandpa's cabin. It was super cute but small. I think there was technically only one bedroom. So Kevin's grandpa, mom and dad slept inside the cabin.


Kevin, his brother and I slept in the worlds largest tent. Seriously. Huge! It worked out nice because it was so ginormous that it actually had two rooms. So I slept in one room and Kevin and Bryan slept in the other.


Oh, and Kevin's grandpa is my hero. Once we got the tent set up he came out carrying this big bag and said "I have a blow up cot for sleeping, but of course it's for Misti because she's a woman." Love him! So this was my bed and poor Kevin and Bryan had to sleep on the cold hard ground.

Plus look at that view out my "window."


So here's the rundown of the weekend: Sleep, eat, relax, eat, swim, relax, eat, sleep ...

Ok, not quite. When we got there on Friday night Kevin, his brother and dad had to do some serious yard cleaning. They mowed the lawn, raked up a bunch of leaves, reattached the boat dock, cleaned off the outdoor tables, Bryan even painted the tables. But when they were done it looked nice and was so comfortable to hang out in. This is the table area with Kevin's mom and grandpa. Who, by the way are the best cooks ever! They cooked us all our food. Yummy!

This is the dock that we were swimming off of, with two random people sitting on the end of it. So, maybe not so random. I think it was actually their dock and we were borrowing it because Kevin's grandpas' dock had been demolished in a storm.

These were our swimmer-floaties. Ok, maybe not the funnest lake toys but they did the job. Plus they were hot pink and hot orange. Does it get better than that?

Here's my sweetie enjoying the wilderness, I think. Is he smiling?

Now the real picture of my sweetie.

Fine, he didn't read the whole time, but a good portion. He finished a whole book in two days.

The best part of the trip was the fireworks show. It turns out that a lot of people who have houses on the lake are uber-rich so we got quite a show. I'm sure it helped that we were next to an indian reservation too. Most of the docks around the lake were shooting off the big fireworks that shoot up in the sky and make that boom that shakes your heart. And each household had about 2 or 3 hundred of them (ok, exageration). We did sit out on the dock for about an hour and a half watching constant fireworks, though. So we had fireworks going off all around us and they were reflected in the lake. Basically, it was amazing. Oh, and at the end someone actually took their fireworks display out on a boat. That was even better, but it could of just been the thrill of wondering when the boat was going to catch fire.

Sunday morning I went and took a picture of the leftovers on the dock next to where we sat. Just to put it into perspective even more, these guys has a pretty pathetic stash compared to all the others.

Like I said before the weekend was brilliant and exactly the vacation I needed