Now That’s a Weekend…
On Friday afternoon I arrived at work and had a strong urge to A) find a way to watch the England Game (I will not weep, I will not weep, I will not weep) B) Get out of the city ASAP. The only problem was I was at my office with a full work day ahead of me. So I decided noon was high time to get the hell out. Confirmed it with the Boss and I was outtie.
We hit the road super quick and managed to get up north before the England game was too far in (20 minutes in if I remember right). My Grandparents and my sister Amanda were already up there and we got right down to having a blast. The Saturday forecast was calling for rain (of the thunderstorm variety) so we decided that Friday should be beach day. We spent a few hours down there and had a blast. Paige isn’t big on the water (we are working on it) but I managed to get quite a bit of swimming in since Tammy wanted nothing to do with a cold lake (silly Arizonian).
For dinner we BBQ’d some Sliders which were surprisingly fantastic and had some french fries (which I thought were terrible, but everyone else insisted they are fine… so clearly they are crazy…). Parents arrived up, we went to sleep. Profit.
Saturday did not bring the rain that was threatened (until later, but we’ll get there) and we ended up having another great day at the beach. This time my dad, my sister Jess and my sister’s boyfriend joined in on the beach fun. I even laid out and tanned for a bit and needless to say I’m pulling off the Irish-Red-tan quite well right now… Last season I think I made it down to the beach 2 times all season and here I was pulling that off in one weekend, it was awesome.
After we finished at the beach we decided to head to the Kawartha Dairy to grab some shakes and ice cream.
It was then time for dinner… after dinner Jessica and I decided we would go ATVing. The plan was to take a fairly short ride out to the main highway and come back. We got about 75% of the way there and we arrived at a small intersection and Jess asked “what’s that way”. Of course this type of question between siblings can only lead to crazy exploration and down the street we went towards Murphy’s Corners and Ridge Road.
We arrived at the Ridge Road church and I pulled over knowing that there was a geocache I had failed to find there last year. We spent some time looking (and I knew where it was this time having asked someone…) and we came away empty handed. Just as we were giving up the hunt for the cache thunder started to roar in the distance. Looked up at the sky and holy crap it was black to the south-west. ”Let’s get out of here dude…”.
We made it almost back home and ran across a deer. We stopped to watch him eat grass and check us out. Then it came. BOOM. HAIL. ”Shit Jess, book it, book it”. The deer was off in to the trees and we were doing the speed limit busting our asses to get home. Hail and rain falling hard.
We quickly outran the storm (yes that is actually possible) and made it home unscathed.
Sunday we had father’s day pancake breakfast and we were on our way home. Father’s day dinner was our usual trip to Swiss Chalet.
The above is around 600 words to say this: This weekend fucking rocked. I haven’t had that much fun or felt so fulfilled up north in a real.long.time.
