This morning we woke up to a quiet cabin, with no men! They left to go freeze their toes off ~ before the sun began to shine! We got dressed and ready for the day and were waiting and waiting for them to get back for some hot breakfast. After sitting in a 12x24 foot box with two restless munchkins we went for a walk.
This is The Fish Lake Lodge, it is huge and very old. We were looking for textures to make rubbings of and they loved how the old logs felt.
We found lots and lots of leaves and they posed for me ~ a little bit!
I loved the deck on the lake side of the lodge. The old wood slats were making Chloe very nervous. She was walking very carefully, leery of the differences in the planks. Seth just wanted to find more sticks and bugs! 
The leaves were so beautiful on the mountain side. The many colors of orange, yellows, reds and browns were in abundance and it seemed we were alone on the lake. 
Munchkins or Monsters? You decide!!!There were a few things to be packed for our long weekend at Fish Lake. I made sure MY SUITCASE was in the truck, like 4 times {last year I left my bag home...}! I carefully selected the food we would eat and prepared it as much as humanly possible so that the work to be done at the cabin would be minimal. We had invited Dan's dad and grandpa to come with us but after the funeral, Grandpa Steve had things to do. I got a call Tuesday evening from Dan's mom and she was being coerced into coming! This morning at 8 AM we met at work and loaded everything up into Grandpa's car, everything but our grandma...
I would not recommend driving for four to five hours unless you have the fabulous DVD player with headphones for the munchkins ~ it is so awesome!
We got to the lake and launched the boat. Dad and Dan both caught some sort of fish. After Dinner, Chloe and I stayed at the cabin and caught a glimpse of these deer:
She was very quiet when she told me there were deer outside and we quietly went out to the deck to check them out. Two deer were directly under our deck and quickly moved away ~ scaring us quite easily!
The cabin was great, the heater worked well and once the boys dragged their skunked selves inside and Seth woke up from his nap on the boat we enjoyed brownies and ice cream before going to bed!
