Over the River and Through the Woods

My company has a vacation property located about four hours from the Twin Cities. There are three cabins, a large lake, a swimming pool, tennis courts, a couple of boats, and a private nine hole golf course. It's a very nice property.

Anyhow, this past year, my name was chosen for the cabin. The cabin we were in had a maximum sleeping capacity of fifteen people, but we opted to go alone this time. So, we packed up the Friday before Christmas and spent the weekend there (returning on Monday afternoon). I had heard that the cabin was nice, but for some reason I thought that the people who had been there were exaggerating. So, we were pleasantly surprised when we found that the place was not only spotless clean, but also just plain gorgeous.



In the basement, there were all sorts of fun activities: a pool table, ping pong table, foos ball, Nintendo Gamecube, air hockey, and darts. There were also five new sets of cross country skis (which I did use, but refuse to post the video that Song Min took of me...NOT at all flattering).

We spent most of the time cooking and watching movies. A good deal of our time was spent trying to get the fire going. Since all of the wood was wet, it was a major ordeal. Song Min stayed at it for...well a long time, and finally got it going on its own. When we got home, all of our clothes smelled like smoke.



There were a few things that were negatives there. 1) We were so secluded, that I kept freaking out that we would be the perfect victims of a break in and murder (yes, I know...I've watched too many scary movies). 2) The water smelled like sulfur, so doing the dishes, washing hands, etc. all smelled like eggs...yuck! 3) They had the creepiest coffee table of the land. SERIOUSLY! It was like an aquarium of stuffed fish...with teeth and other little fish out of the big ones' mouths. CREEPY!



The time away together was really nice. I was so happy to be able to spend some quality time alone with my husband. I hope that we'll be able to go up there again sometime soon.