We headed out Friday morning in Eddy's truck, with Greg and B-Mac right behind us (oh, and Penny Penguin!). We drove the 5.5 hours to Baldwin, MI. The only disappointing part of the car ride was I found out they changed the sign on the border of Michigan to "Pure Michigan". It no longer says "Great Lakes, Great Times." I hate it. We did however get to watch the snow start to pile up the further north we went which was good since skiing was in the plan for the weekend. Though maybe not the best thing when Eddy yelled "let's do this!!", gunned it onto the dirt road leading to the cabin, and spun out! Probably should have done that AFTER he put his car in four wheel drive! But it made for a good story and our motto for the weekend.
We got to Eddy's cabin which was super cute. The main house had a log burning oven, a long kitchen that was surprisingly practical, a full bathroom, and a bedroom. Then across the street was the garage, another full bathroom. Above the garage was the bunk house that had 5 cots in it. Eddy's mom had decorated the cabin with pictures him and his brothers had drawn as kids. It was all picture perfect.
We decided to head into town before the second car got there to go pick up any items needed for groceries. We went to the local grocery which we named "whole foods". Though we made fun of a lot of things in Baldwin, they did have a pretty mean boxed sangria. :) We finished up earlier then expected so we hit up the local bar...well, one of the two. Baldwin seemed like a town small enough that everyone knew everyone so people could definitely tell we were "city folk". But we were enjoying our backwoods experience and drinking out of mason jars!
After a drink we headed back to the cabin and waited for the other car to arrive. KP, Curt, Titus, Trey, and Colleen showed up quickly and we had to fill them in on all the adventures we'd already had. Then we took out the snowmobiles and the golf cart with "snow tires" on a night time adventure ride. Eddy's land is about 600 acres so we weren't really worried about running into anyone..except for maybe a deer...or the Dogman. Trey and Eddy also thought it would be a good idea to jump into the crick behind the house (even though it was -7 degrees outside). We also came up with the list of things seen below which is what we wanted to accomplish up at the cabin.
We played with the snow toys until we were too tired to play any more and then headed off to our respective sleeping areas. Saturday morning we started off early with a wholesome breakfast courtesy of the boys. Then we headed outside to shoot rifles. This was my first (and probably last) rifle shooting experience but at least I can say I did it. I was fine with tromping in the snow (behind the shooters) and making snow angels instead. Once we were done with the shooting, we packed into two cars and headed up to Caberfae Peaks to go skiing! Turns out, I'm pretty good at it. It's a shame I didn't go more when I was in Michigan.
After we put in 4 hours of skiing we headed back to town to show the others the bar and grab some pizza. We ended up going to a bar called "Debbie's" who LOVED us. They brought out beer pong for us, called in a DJ, and even gave us some free drinks! Of course, being a group of 10 we were the majority of the people in the bar that night! We ended up skipping pizza and staying there all night. We finally headed back to our car (thank you KP for being sober driver!) and headed back to the cabin.
Sunday morning we got up for one more delicious breakfast and a few more precious hours of hanging out. I was sad to see the other car go but the good news is that Colleen was the only one in it that doesn't live in Indy and I'll get to see her again in just 9 days!
There was no showering done by 8 people on this trip the whole weekend. Eddy said that's how you get the real outdoor experience. We also ate tons of pop tarts, scones, cookies, chips, chex mix, and anything else that comes already made and isn't good for you. I definitely need to stock up on my veggies this week!
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