Minnesota Pre-Adventure

Hello everyone and welcome to my first blog entry, covering what I like to call my 'pre-adventure', which really means the week and a half vacation at the family cottage in Minnesota. (AKA my favourite place on earth). I've been at this cottage for 25 out of my 26 summers! I only missed one year when I was off adventuring in Europe. I was even here when I was approximately 2 months old.. sorry to say I can't tell you many details of that summer besides that I was probably an angelically behaved baby
So far this week has consisted of sun, beer, food, and more sun. I managed to burn myself on just our second day here but that hasn't stopped me from further sun adventures. Thankfully I have a great gym instructor that has been sending me workouts, and Liam has joined me in these (though he hates them!) and we have gone golfing, walking, and out on the boat; so we are getting a little bit of activity! Today we set up beer pong on a float on the lake, just getting ready for all the family that will be here for our August long excitement.

Here's me in my 'Murica gear on our first day!

This is our cottage..

I'm pretty sure it's the cutest cottage on the planet.. but I may be slightly biased.

This is the view out on the water..

We've had a lot of calm days like that this week.. just beautiful!

This the fam that's here right now (minus Grandpa, he's not big on photos)

Mom, Maddie, Me and Liam.

Liam and I out golfing...

Our beer pong creation..

And lastly... Ellie and the lake!

Stay tuned for our Minneapolis adventure happening tomorrow!