Trip to the Lake

When I was a child we took the same vacation every summer. We went to my aunt and uncles cabin they have in Michigan. I can remember doing this for years and years. It was a fun week each year but it also got old doing the same vacation over and over again.

In 2006 my parents asked all of us (my family, & my brothers families) to go each summer to the cabin for a weekend. I thought how fun to take my kids where I had spent many a summers playing with my cousins as a kid.

The play ground is still their and the swings are probably the same swings we played on as kids, just 30 years older.

The roped off area for swimming and the small sand beach is still in place also. Seems much smaller to me today. I would also swear these floating things are the same ones we played on as kids. I seriously doubt they are 30 years old but we played on the exact same things.

The only thing missing is their use to be a small general store down by the water that we always bought nickle candy at. It was the candy store to us and we loved it. OK as a mom I am probably glad this is gone but it was way cool when I was a kid.

Here Thomas sits on the steps in front of the cabin. My mom has a photo of me and my cousins sitting in this same spot with our life vests on when we were probably 6 or 7 years old. I also took a photo a couple summers ago with the kids in their life vests sitting on these steps (it is MIA). Their is also a picture of my uncle as a young boy standing in front of the cabin. He is now in his 60's. If these walls could talk....

Here my boys sit on these really nice stairs that use to be these old stone steps leading down to the water. The old steps are under these...

I dug out this pic from last summer.

Poor Thomas hated the life vest so much he cried himself to sleep.

I don't know how I got a smile because all I heard was off mama, off.
Still does not like the vest.

Grandpa caught a fish and dropped it on the boat floor. It flopped around and Thomas freaked out. I got a pic of Thomas with a look of fear but then he climbed me like a cat so I didn't get a pic of the fish.

Now Luke loves the fish and going fishing.

He can't wait to get out on the boat each year.

This was a pic of Luke fishing in 2006. At 3 years old he loved this!

Luke also went tubing on the lake. His dad did it with him this year. The water was freezing so I wasn't getting in. Each year I want to go tubing but with my husband and brother at the controls of the boat, no way. They will dump me into the lake for sure. No pic because once again, I forgot my camera. My SIL took pics and said she would send them to me.

We have gone the past 4 years on this family weekend get away. Luke is now at an age where he asks as soon as summer hits when are we going to Michigan. He knows we will go....I am just glad he likes going.

Do you have a vacation destination that your family likes to visit often?