The Lutsen Experience
Day 1: Thursday. Supposed to leave our house at noon. I get there around 12:30 and we pack up all the cars in a flurry. Everyone is certain we are forgetting things (and we are). 5 cars pull out of our driveway.
Car 1: Kory & Denise, Car 2: Monte & Julie, Car 3: Chris & Jill, Car 4: Jackson & Angie, Car 5 : Dan & Lance (no, they aren’t a couple)
We drive approximately 385 miles an hour in a caravan and we arrive in Lutsen in less than 2 minutes. Ahh.. the scenary. Ok, we drove about 85 the whole way and I spent much of it panicking that we were going to get arrested. Nothing exciting happened other than that we saw a lot of deer and for the first time, it wasn’t pouring the entire drive up. We stopped in the same little dive bar in Beaver Bay and a few earth-shattering games of Fooz Ball were won and lost… when we got up to the cabin in Tofte, Kory and I left the group to drive on to Lutsen to get the keys for our executivo cabino – round trip 16 miles away- only to come back and find everyone already in the cabin as the housekeepers had accidently left one of the door unlocked.
I said, “Oh shit! You mean we didn’t need the key?!”
Dan said, “Uh, no. You probably didn’t need to pay for it, either.”
Hotujec showed up a little later – he geocached on the way up….
Julie made chicken and spinach/corn yumminess – I was exhausted and went to bed pretty early……
Friday: Chris and Jill made breakfast burritos….. we played games, hung out, played cards… I made veggie soup and salad bar for lunch…. went for a walk… Luke and Sarah showed up around lunch time…we played Werewolf that night – which is an AWESOME game in which some people are townspeople and some are werewolves and there’s an oracle and a little girl…. and then someone is Cupid… oh shit… this doesn’t sound fun or cool at all, I bet. But it is! It super, super is! Especialy with that many people.
(playing Werewolf)
