Infiltrating the Happy Place

For years Jackie has been going with her co-workers, friends and family on a ladies-and-cool-people-only canoe trip. Cedar Valley Resort in Lanesboro, MN has become the favorite destination for this annual "Chick Trip".

This year, for the first time ever, Jackie and some of her Chick Trip compatriots decided to risk sullying their happy place by inviting their family along including husbands and.....children to their cherished spot (GASP!)

Everything went smashingly well. I even got to splice some happy place action of my own into the trip by stopping for a couple of great (but short) mountain bike rides in nearby mtb haven Decorah. I'll have more on that in another post.

We:

Campfired

Drinked some beerz

Farmer Marketed

Ate ice cream in the rain

Biked

Ate until we exploded

Frisbee golfed

Drinked summore beerz

Mini golfed

Tennis-ed

Volleyballed

Ate until we exploded again

Hill rolled (well some just attempted to hill roll)

Better drink nuther beerz

Canoed

How long has been since we ate?" "Have you seen all the food we brought?!" "EAT!"

Came up with a new business venture - vaudevillian musical pie delivery via Segway, songs to include "Bye, bye Miss American Pie" and "She's My Cherry Pie" and "Pie'll Be There..".

I'm sure I impressed all "campers" with my fire building/tending/smelting/glassblowing artisianship.

...and a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting.



The cabin was beautiful.



The kids got along.



Simon says alot of stuff, but he doesn't have to say "dance" twice.



Aw



Divine Geometry



It was good for the soul - that's how good it was.