Labor Day Weekend

Well, I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend! Dan and I sure did. We went up to the cabin in Turtle Lake, and it was absolutely gorgeous. Warm, sunny weather, the water temperature was like bath water; in short, it was perfect. We mainly just lounged around relaxing; Dan got a lot of fishing in, and I read two books that I'd been wanting to read for awhile.

We went boating once on Monday (in my uncle and aunt' s boat--they were up there too, so we got to spend time with them, which was a lot of fun) and that was great. I absolutely love spending time on the water, and I think boating is one of the best ways to do it! I went tubing on Sunday, and while it was really fun, the water was so choppy that I really had to strain my arms just to hang on. Yeah, I'm still sore, and it's Tuesday. I feel like I went through a really tough workout ;) But it was still fun. The rest of Sunday was just spent lounging in the water on a raft, reading, so it was very relaxing.

Sunday night we went to the Five O'Clock Club, which is this excellent restaurant about 20 minutes from the cabin. It's very high-end food, but you don't have to get all dressed up to go there, which is nice. Dan had the salmon, like he always does, and then I had this delicious dinner called the Dynamic Duo; it was filet mignon topped with lobster stirfry and bernaise sauce. It was de-freaking-licious. The only problem is, they give you so much food (we had clam chowder and homemade bread before the main course came) that it was impossible to eat our whole dinner. Oh well, it made for good leftovers the next day!

Monday morning I actually got up early with Dan to go fishing. Yeah, that's something I *never* do, and he's been begging me to come with him, so I thought I might as well, since it was our last day there. It was actually quite peaceful, and I really enjoyed it. (I didn't fish though; I just sat in the boat with him and read). I would do it more often, I just wish you didn't have to get up at 6 am in order to get the good fishing in. Can't someone talk to the fish and have them change their schedules to, I don't know, 10 am-12 pm? That would be the perfect fishing time for me, in my opinion. ;)

We ended up leaving at 3 pm on Monday and got back to Madison by 7, which is pretty standard. I was surprised that we didn't run into more traffic what with it being the holiday weekend and all. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera, so I can't post pictures, but it was absolutely gorgeous. We're hoping to go up again some time in September, so I'll get the pictures of the leaves changing then!