Lake Cavanaugh

We spent the weekend at Lake Cavanaugh about 2 hours outside of Seattle. Andrew's family goes to this lake-house annually and I can see why. It's breathtaking. (This was my second time going. We didn't go last year.) It is near Mt. Vernon and there is no cell service/internet there. It was nice to take a breather from social media for a few days.

We purchased the cheapest flights possible which made our travel times less than ideal. We left on Thursday, July 30 at 6:00 AM. (Meaning we had to leave for the airport by 4:30 AM) We returned from Seattle last night at 12:00 AM and we pulled in to our place around 1:15 AM.  Yikes.

We rented a car to travel from the airport to the lake-house and found a really good deal. I think we ended up paying $11 a day for our rental car which is so reasonable. We got the cheapest, crummiest rental car possible. When we got to the rental car place, it turned out that every rental car would be rented that day, so we were allowed to pick any car. According to an employee there, we got a quadruple upgrade which was nice. Driving in Seattle traffic is no fun, but my phone lead us around the traffic areas and we got to drive through various parts of Seattle on our way.

The lake-house was quite crowded this year because every one of Andrew's siblings came. There were 43 of us total in a 4 bedroom place. Andrew and I slept in the loft with a couple of our nephews. One couple slept in a tent, another in the back of their car. Meals were massive and I found myself in line for seconds or even thirds far too often. I won't be stepping foot on a scale anytime soon.

The weather was perfect and I was very cautious not to recreate my Puerto Rico burn experience, so I lathered the sun screen on. Now I'm a little sad I was so careful because it doesn't really look like I went to a lake at all. Oh well, there is always next summer.

There were plenty of kids (28) to hold and play with all weekend. My body adjusted to going to bed around 1:00 AM every night and waking up when all the babies did at about 7:00 AM. Nights were always exciting because all the kids were in bed and the adults could focus on things other than their children. One night each couple told the story of how they met. Another night we all traded first kiss stories. Ocean's 13 was projected one evening.We also planned an adult family vacation for 2017 which can't come soon enough.

Lots of nerts, hand and foot, and spike ball were played and I miss it already. (Although my partner and I were out of the spike ball tournament in the first round.) I have a few battle wounds from our time there. I got at least 6 huge bug bites on my legs. I am also still limping from the 3 mile run I took around the hilly lake. (That run was the deciding factor in why I chose not to run the 7.8 mile run around the lake race the following day.)

I went tubing twice and realized quickly that I'm getting old. I was sore the following day from gripping the tube so tightly. My back was also yelling at me. I learned that going with boys tubing is a completely different activity. They purposely try to kick and knock each other off. Who knew.

It was an eventful weekend with 3 birthday celebrations and one trip to the E.R. Some stitches were necessary after a skiing incident on the boat. (Poor Vaughn) I am glad to be home though because I finally got to shower!