Small Town Minds-MXPX

I went to grab the phone today
To talk to "T"

...Then realizing
She isn't home
For the enitre week

Every summer her family and about 30 other friends and kids and dogs and coolers and food and boats and jetskis and (yeah, it's like that)...go up north to EAGLE RIVER for an enitre week of endless sun, campfires, drinking games, card games, board games, cabin antics, and exciting relaxation. We used to join them for this. There were about 9 cabins right on the water and we would occupy them all. Load up the cars...drive forever...unpack...and kick back. The cabins sucked. They were not exactly my class of abode...but you were Up North after all! There was no air conditioning. You had to bring your own sheets. Actually make your own beds. We brought our own Boom Boxes, our own towels, our own pillows. By the end of the week the floors were covered in sand...kids scramble in and out at their own free will. Screen doors slammed...no rules! Lounging in hammocks, making sandcastles at the beach...and not quite my favorite beach in the Bahamas. After the week, I would be sooo ready to get home! But each year again...I was sooo ready to get up there again.

Each evening 2 families were assigned to a dinner. This way you only had to cook once and you got to eat good every night. (Except for the Friday before we left for home...that night we would take all the boats across the lake and do a famous WISCONSIN Fish Fry.) The only drawback is that you were cooking for 30 people...in these "not so updated" cabins. It wasn't like she would allow burgers or brats or anything simple like that. I was always LASAGNA...and everything that went with it...no wine though...cuz we were all roughin' it with quarter barrels in ice tubs! Occasional rounds of shots of whatever donned the picnic table!

I sorta miss not doing that now. Haven't done it for a few years....but they still go. We'd stay up until 2 or 3 in the morning...around a blazing fire. Wake in the morn...some would go out fishing if they had stayed up all night. Some would sleep in. Putting on our swimsuits...we spent each day waterskiing, jetskiing, and swimming. Swim out to the raft...play King of the Hill...pushing off everyone you could. Men ALWAYS won! The kids were young. They thought the world of us. Now mine have no interest in going. I have no idea how T gets hers and the others all up there still...I think the teens all just sneak the beer and booze!

It was peaceful
It was rowdy

All in the same breathe.

I never caught a fish
I never got up on the Skis
I always tipped over the jetski in the middle of the lake!

But still
Summer is so short...
sorta wish I was up there right now.