The Cabin

On Friday, we went up to Midway to a friend's family cabin. Yes, we do have a life beyond thinking about this baby. We invited some of our friends from our ward. That meant there were three couples and one 2-year-old.

Mark and I had never been there before. Boy were we glad that we got up there when it was still light outside. By the time the third couple got there, they couldn't tell which way they needed to go--and it was snowing! But, Mark and I found it by dumb-luck. The map was a little hard to follow and the directions weren't very detailed.

When Mark and I got there, we found a car parked in front of the cabin. We were confused, because we were pretty sure we were the first ones of our group to get there. And, we didn't recognize the car at all.

Turns out, it was one of the family members and his girlfriend. They had come up a few days before and were intending to stay for the next three nights. Um...can you say, "Awkward"?

We reserved the cabin through my friend, Peggy. Peggy is married to a brother of the family that owns the cabin. Peggy had scheduled the cabin two weeks before for us with the "scheduler." Yes, that would be the person who schedules the cabin. The guy that we met there at the cabin had asked his mother. She had not asked the "scheduler," but had instead told him that there ought not to be anyone up there and to go ahead.

Yah, "awkward." He invited us in and told us that it would be no problem if we stayed the night there. We told him that there were five other people coming too. He said that wouldn't be a problem either.

Well, it turned out to be a problem. Probably because we were talking about families and church and babies and such. You know, wholesome things. Perhaps that's why they left, because they weren't exactly there on a wholesome weekend.

When the other couples finally managed to find the place, we had such a great time. We ate wonderful veggies, a Jell-o salad, and lasagne. Yum-o! We laughed and laughed. We talked and talked.

We fully intended playing games, but it was so good to just talk about stuff, that we didn't play games on Friday night. Instead we stayed up talking about everything from maternity clothing to the economy and Obama. We also all decided that we're really old, because around midnight, we were all shutting down. TIRED. Ha! Old farts.

The next morning, we woke up and had us a few bowls of cereal and some fresh fruit. THEN we played games. We played Nertz for about an hour and a half. Maybe longer. Mark won by one point. Stinker. hehehehe.....

We left the cabin at noon.

What did we think of it? It was wonderful! It had three bedrooms, each with a queen sized bed. Then there was the big room on the same floor as the bedrooms where five double (or queen) sized beds and two twin beds were all lined along the walls. Yes, that room would be a nightmare for parents/a dream for kids to sleep together. Then there was a loft that had about ten or so mattresses stacked up that you could throw anywhere in the cabin you wanted to sleep. The dining room table was large and sturdy. And the two bathrooms in the house both had showers.