I'm still recuperating from my fantastic (and ridiculous) weekend camping with some friends at Norway Beach on Cass Lake.
My friend Amber threw a camping extravaganza birthday party for her husband Josh with fifteen or so from our group of high school friends (we were still missing a few!). And, after our short time together, we're all begging them to make it an annual thing. It was fantastic.
It's weird to think that I was camping in this same spot more than ten years ago with my friend Jeena. And that we were back in the same place all these years later. (See her and her little family toward the bottom of this post). There's this picture of us from that time where - well, first of all, where she looks adorable and tiny and I'm like captain baby fat, head of the ugly two-piece parade - but secondly, where we look unbelievably happy. We are just two kids with the whole world in front of us doing nothing but being together. That was enough then. And when you take a break from the "real" world, it's enough now.
Isn't it funny how being at a lake or in the wilderness with nothing to do automatically brings you back to a place of innocence again? For us, that meant skipping stones, playing frisbee, laughing around the fire, riding bikes, going on walks and splashing around in the water (or having a sand fight after a few drinks on the pontoon. oops!).
We often forget how lucky we are to be almost a decade out of high school and still loving our time together. Everyone is so so different now, but the bond we made back then was enough to last. I guess there are some things we just get right the first time.
My friend Amber threw a camping extravaganza birthday party for her husband Josh with fifteen or so from our group of high school friends (we were still missing a few!). And, after our short time together, we're all begging them to make it an annual thing. It was fantastic.
It's weird to think that I was camping in this same spot more than ten years ago with my friend Jeena. And that we were back in the same place all these years later. (See her and her little family toward the bottom of this post). There's this picture of us from that time where - well, first of all, where she looks adorable and tiny and I'm like captain baby fat, head of the ugly two-piece parade - but secondly, where we look unbelievably happy. We are just two kids with the whole world in front of us doing nothing but being together. That was enough then. And when you take a break from the "real" world, it's enough now.
Isn't it funny how being at a lake or in the wilderness with nothing to do automatically brings you back to a place of innocence again? For us, that meant skipping stones, playing frisbee, laughing around the fire, riding bikes, going on walks and splashing around in the water (or having a sand fight after a few drinks on the pontoon. oops!).
We often forget how lucky we are to be almost a decade out of high school and still loving our time together. Everyone is so so different now, but the bond we made back then was enough to last. I guess there are some things we just get right the first time.
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