The Cottage Experience

Question - Is it a flock of porcupines? Flock doesn't seem right... flock sounds like its for a bird. Well, usually, it is.
Sorry, random question. My dad brought it up.

Anyways, as hard as it may be to believe, I have never stayed at a cottage before. I camped (10 years ago) and went to a trailor (2 years ago), but never have I stayed at a cottage. I'll try to summarize the best bits of it. This may be a long blog.

Day 1
My experience started on a bad note. I got a haircut, hated it, was rushed through lunch, and was greeted by blasting metal music when my friends van came to pick me up. It was a long drive. Sure, we had some good bands like Triumph, Journey, and Coldplay, but overall the music was bad.

We arrived, and played risk. For some reason I just wasn't in the mood for it. During the risk game we found the epic deer hat. See facebook for picture.We went to bed right after.


Day 2
We tried tubing. It was so much fun! we went until the boat was almost out of gas, then played monopoly. We didn't make it through a full game, and ended up starting a file on Super Mario Sunshine. We got 30 shinesprites on that one day.

Days 3 - 6:
The rest of the week went by as a blur. We tubed, played monopoly, played mario, ate lots of snack food, went swimming, and slept. My friend Cam and I canoed around the lake on the 6th evening.

Day 7
Day 7 was more interesting than the rest of the week. I woke up with a sunburn, we beat Super Mario Sunshine, and started playing Super Mario Strikers. We went tubing again, but this time two people collided and flew off the tubes. It was fun to watch. At dinner, we had a surprise visit from my friend's uncle, who owns the cabin next door. My friends mom went over to offer him some dinner, only to find out it wa him and his girlfriend. That was a riot. My friend joked with his mom, "You should tell her he's unemployed!"
The same night, we went out into the woods and played a stealth game called excalibur. A lantern is put in the woods, and the players have to run and touch the lantern without being seen by the person guarding it. I won the first round, caught everyone the second, and then we stopped during the next game. It was getting too late.

Day 8
We cleaned the cabin in the morning. My sunburn had started to heal, and we left the cottage around 3 pm. we stopped at Webers and The Candy Shoppe, and I got bags of lego candy. I'm eating it right now. anyways, we got home around 8:30, at which time I discovered my ipod was dead. Not just battery, but my entire ipod. Dead, erased, no way of restoring it. Basically, I lost all my music, and my ipod.

I'm not really sure what the point of this blog was. I think it had one at the start, but I'm still tired, readers. And so I leave you with this advice: Never let your friends use your ipod. It doesn't end well.

~V