Sorry I haven't been on this thing in a few days - I was secluded to a BEAUTIFUL rustic cabin in Sturgeon Bay...
.....that not only had limited cell phone service and absolutely no wireless internet but ZERO running water, no adapter to connect the gas stove up to cook our 3 frozen pizzas we insisted on bringing for the first night and did I mention no heat?
...oh yes, and little were we aware that the posting that said "3 beds, 2 baths" wouldn't have the bed frames fulfilled with mattresses. Yes ladies & gents...we were mattressless.
Here's how the weekend went down:
Amy, Wes, Baby J and I jam packed the Mitsubishi SUV with everything from baby bottles and Amy's booby feeding kit to 36 scrambled eggs (which mind you, we weren't 100% sure how we were going to cook this purchase) and 2 spur-of-the-moment impulse bought 1990 stand up Jet Skis (which were literally bought & picked up on our way up north). Yes everyone, WESTON FLEGEL IMPULSE BOUGHT 2 JET SKIS ON THE LAST WEEKEND OF THE SUMMER. I knew this was just the start of a great weekend.
The ride up was a normal ride--coasting to reggae music and throwin' in a little hip hop every now & then. As we roll up around 7:30pm to cliff top road, our eyes are the biggest they've ever been. All of us, "THE OUTSIDE OF THIS PLACE LOOKS SWEET!" Wes & I head to find the key, open the double bolted door and walk into a cold atmosphere - yup, the kitchen is the very first thing we see. There is no faucet in the sink and no cupboards filled with silverware, cups, plates or napkins (good thing the motherly instinct in me brought plenty and came prepared)....as we walk into the so-called living room, it has one wickered chair and stone floor (this is still okay! we've got this!)...we anxiously headed up the stairs to go check out where we'd be spending a few hours a night snoozin':
walk into bedroom #1 = beautfiul wooden bed frame (peek over the frame)...no mattress.
walk into bedroom #2 = one twin size mattress
walk into bedroom #3 = just an old white metaled bed frame...no mattress
We started laughing & pondering where we're all going to sleep and how this is going to work (mind you, there is only stone and wooden floors). We figure out our sleeping situation which concludes Drew, Amy, Wes, JJ & I snuggling in the downstairs room closest to the fireplace.
Mission #1: How do we cook our pizzas? Well, pizza #1 gets smoked and burnt after our brilliant idea to roast it over the fire. (Words of Wisdom #1: don't cook a pizza over a fire without some type of topping to cover it...complete smoke taste if you leave it topless) Pizza #2 was better, but certainly not the greatest pizza I've experimented with. Let's just say we didn't even get to opening Pizza #3.
Mission #2: How do we cook the 36 eggs we bought? Brilliant idea again - over the fire! (atleast we were being creative, right?!)...smoke taste. (Repeat Lesson: Umm...cover your eggs if you're going to cook them on a fire)
Mission #3: We are heading to the grocery store to get charcoal and tin foil so we can heat up the grill and enclose our food inside the tin foil! We pass a nearby rummage sale...seeing life jackets and knowing we need some if we're going to crash the 5ft waves with the newly purchase jet skis. On our way back, we swing by looking at all the antique merchandise (the life jackets were junk) and all of a sudden...Gods light shines through the dull, overcast windy sky....AN ELECTRIC COOKER FOR 25 CENTS! This 25 cent cooker won't only cook our eggs but it will BAKE our cinnamon rolls and bring a light brown look to our toast!!
The rest of the weekend was a success. We played multiple card games of SPEED & Solitaire, TABOO, stoked the fire every 30 minutes, felt like free spirits dipping in the rocky coasts' water, fished a late game, powered up the 1990 jet ski and hopped in our shared wet suit...and best of all, enjoyed eachothers company.
Lesson #2: if you want to bargain shop for electric cookers, just tag along with Amy and I.
Lesson #3: No matter how caught off guard you are by the circumstances you are brought into, make the most of them. We could have easily called it a weekend and headed to another location, but we knew that the people we had together would make it memorable.
happy day after labor day story :)
AWESOME!
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