Bearskin Creek Retreat: New Years Up Nort'

Twas Christmas day and we headed up north for the weekend. Originally we were taking the dually and my Toyota truck up. Pulling out of the driveway, the turbo on the mighty dually took a large dump. Idled it back home and unloaded all the stuff in it into the Toyota. Carrie, Cam, Bob and I left for the cottage about 6:30pm.

On the 26th, we went fishing for a bit on Lake Killarny. Didn't really catch anything worth the while. Back to the cottage and went sledding a bit and basically just played outside. The hill at the cottage is so much fun to sled down. Here are some pictures

(Getting ready to go down the hill)

(Cam is having so much fun sledding)

(Nice moves Don)

(now this is how you go sledding,
you get a ride up the hill with a 4wheeler)

(come on daddy I'm waiting for you :)

(my two boys)

(look at Don in the back, good save)

(here comes there ride back up the hill)

(yes this is water that Cameran is driving his dump truck)

After dinner Cameran still wanted to go outside and play some more. We had great fun jumping of the deck and sledding off the deck.

(jumping off the deck at the cottage, what great fun)

(lets jump together mom)

(sledding from off the deck)

27th rolls around and we went outside again to do some sledding down the drive before Don takes Bob and Cam back to West Bend. Cam and Bob are going billy-big-riggin to Kansas City for the first part of the week. I then returned with the prius so we had a vehicle for the week.

The 28th Carrie and I left for snowmobiling. Our first day took up through Boulder Junction to Land O Lakes. A nice day and to top it off we had dinner with Jeneen and Chad from Conserve School where we once worked.

(Don is trying to figure out were we are)

(on the Cisco Chain, Mi)

(again on the Cisco Chain, Mi)

On the 28th, we woke up to a fresh coot of snow and we are on our way north into Michigan snowmobiling. We ended up in Twin Lakes for lunch at Parkview and then headed up the Calumet, MI where our hotel was. We checked in there about 3:00 or so and then headed north to Copper Harbor, MI. It was a great day for a ride. We had dinner at the Marnier in CH and then headed back to Calumet to relax.

(Getting ready to leave from Sally and Doug's cottage Land-O-Lake,Mi)

(Bond Falls, MI)

(Houghton, MI.)

(coming into Houghton, MI)

Tuesday the 29th came and we headed for Silver City, MI on the 'mobiles. It was a good ride down through Lake Gogebic and then back to Land O Lakes for the night. Ate at Bent's camp on the cisco chain. Always a favorite when we are in that area.

Wednesday we are scheduled to be back at the cottage. We left LOL early and made it to Boulder Junction for breakfast. As our food arrives, Bob calls and lets us know that he has crashed my Toyota into a tree near the cottage. He missed a corner. Both he and Cam were OK thank god, but the truck looked totaled to him. We called Chad from Conserve School to pick us up in BJ to take us back to the cottage. In the meantime, my dad went to where Bob and Cam crashed to pick them up. The trucked ended up at Custom Collision in Rhinelander. Now we are again down a vehicle. Oh well.

(our poor truck)

We ended up fishing the next few days at my "honey hole" to which I will not divulge the location to all 2 people the may actually read what I type here. So we did ok out there for 3 consecutive days. We also ended up doing some more sledding down our drive way. Here are some more pictures.