Go North My Friends And Celebrate. Chapter One: The Sunny Arrival

It has been two weeks and I finally went through the slough of pictures snapped on our weekend trip to Uncle DadsBro’s cabin. (through the slough…how flippin’ poetic).

Day One: Uncle DadsBro, Aunt DadsSis, Queenie and I cut out of work a bit early and drove to the land of fresh air and tiny grocery stores. We arrived just in time to run into ‘town’ and buy some beer the necessities, decorate for the big half decade celebration and take a pee relax before the travelers from the east arrived. It was a beautiful evening.

Uncle DadsBro's Cabin (view from the dock). Notice the sun.

The Cabin down the walk... where I was forced to sleep in the same cabin as fart-in-his-sleep-cousin (JellyBeanMan). Still noticing the sun.

Beautiful lake. Notice the sun setting? It went to sleep and didn't wake until Sunday.

Dad, JMan and Beaner were traveling by purple PT Cruiser from Wisconsin. An 8 hour trip affording many Big Gulps of soda and several visits to gas station bathrooms. One particularly interesting stop prompted Dad (who is ever on the look out to expand his t-shirt collection) to buy this:

Classy.

When all travelers were reunited and hugs, comments about shirts, congrats about engagements and polite “how was the trips” were exchanged, we all settled in for a beer and some strategic planning.

Dad and DadsBro got right down to business and plotted the best course to bring home the big one (or they were trying to solve world problems, no one really knows).

By the way, I learned a new thing that weekend - those specs that Dad and DadsBro are sporting are called "cheaters". I love to expand my geriatric vocabulary.

Meanwhile, the rest of us got restless. I had only two goals for the weekend.

1. Relax.
2. Get my campfire on.

Nothing is better than the smell of burning wood, the taste of cold beer and yarns about your Dad and his sibs.

Sweet pipe, Uncle DadsBro!

Since Dad was up that morning before the sun and his eyes have seen a half decade, we decided to turn in for the night.

To be continued...