hello titus: The CABIN!

I feel like I post about going to the cabin all the time.

I'm always excited to go to the cabin but for some reason I was more than excited this time. I took a million pictures in the car on the way up of the scenery but mostly of myself.

The pictures from this trip are way different than they are normally. Since it's February the cabin was so snowy! It was absolutely beautiful. It was sunny and nice the day we arrived which was perfect because when there is that much snow, you can't drive the cars up to the cabin. So, we parked about a mile down from the cabin and hiked up to the cabin (with all of our stuff). We made it about 2/3 of the way there when a man with a 4-wheeler picked us and our stuff up and took us the rest of the way! Thank goodness! We had everything on sleds which made it a little easier, but we were just about to climb the giant hill when he saved us!

It looks fun, I'm sure but this was about 200 feet from the cars. We had only just started. It got pretty tiring. After we got up to the cabin Elliott (Valerie's brother) drove down to the parking lot to find Morgan and Jenn (they left about an hour after us). He brought them up with all their stuff on the 4-wheeler. I still don't know how they did it.

Now, I have to preface this by telling you a little about our favorite show, Community. A couple weeks ago they did an episode where they all play a round of Dungeons and Dragons. It was completely ridiculous but it looked really fun. Morgan got this great idea to create our own game of D&D to play at the cabin. I think most of us thought, "yeah, that would be fun, but who is going to take all the time to do that?" Well, Morgan did. He must have spent hours and hours preparing for Friday night.

Pretty intense, right? He created his own story, characters, map, everything! I think we all thought it would last like an hour but we ended up playing late into the night. We were all surprised at how detailed and long of a game it is. The little cones are our characters. We moved around the map to try and figure out the story according to our abilities and skills. My name was Luccio. I was a female wizard of the white court. I could cast spells, freeze people, move objects without touching them and make an ogre appear to scare my enemies.

Saturday was spent mostly sledding and relaxing. Most of the girls took a little cat nap while the boys finished their D&D game (yes, it continued on into the morning). I did some much needed homework (lesson plan writing, as always). Then we all got bundled up and headed out in the snow. It snowed almost all day Saturday so the powder just got deeper and deeper. We would sled down the hill and then one of boys would drive down and pull us back up on the 4-wheeler. Now that is my kind of sledding. On Saturday night we played some sardines around the house (in the pitch black). We've only done it twice, but I feel like it's become a bit of a ritual. Then we decided to make a human pyramid. That idea came to a screeching halt when Josh kicked me in the eye while attempting a head stand. I saw stars so I had to sit down but the most embarrassing part was that after almost falling over and crying in the bathroom, I didn't get a black eye. It's probably good I didn't since I was going to start teaching two days later, but come on. I had nothing to show for my whimpiness. My eye did puff up a little and my actual eye ball was really sore for a couple days. Morgan and Jenn left Saturday night because Jenn had to be in primary on Sunday. Sunday was basically sledding day all day long. By this time I was starting to feel sick. I had a cough all day Saturday that came out of nowhere. And then Sunday I felt just awful. I tried to convince Josh to go home Sunday night but it was just too much of a hassle for everyone else. I didn't get to do any sledding on Sunday because I was feeling so sick. I took a nap and we played a couple rounds of Settlers of Catan. I did bundle up so that I could take some pictures though! It was absolutely gorgeous!

Here comes Valerie! Oh wait, who is that behind her? It's Josh!

Here comes Elliott and Jacob close behind!

All smiles, despite feeling so sick!

On Saturday night we cleaned the house and packed our things so we could head out early Monday morning. We took a bunch of trips down on the 4-wheeler to our cars and hit the road!

Here are a few more random pictures from the weekend.

Our candy pile that grew bigger and bigger everyday. This was after 24 hours at the cabin...