Abraham's first thanksgiving

Today was rather uneventful for us.
Here are some shots of who we spent the day with. Plus the Shupe Grandparents stopped in to drop some food off from their thanksgiving dinner at Christopher's
house.


One of the last shots of Abraham's beautiful mother at the high dollar hotel. And yes K&D we are feeling the sleep thing, especially Angela.


Supercutimous



Poor Cabin. We got a lot of snow last night and today, he looks a little chilled.


For some reason my pickup wouldn't start when I got done with chores this morning so I hauled some "hay" home with the open cab loader tractor. I was completely covered in slushy mud/snow/water by the time I got home (a couple miles). A nice warm house, some food, and a afternoon full of sleep was welcome.

Holiday 2

Ok, Ok, Ok, I will continue on with the Backpacking holiday:). Sorry for the slight delay but we took off on another bit of a holiday this past weekend. A 1st cousin in Pennsylvania got married. Then last night I was distracted:).

Anyway......
So the next morning we woke up on a quiet little lake.

We had some lovely blueberry pancakes for breakfast from blueberries fresh off the bush. mmmmmmm blueberries.....

So we got a bright and early start (about 11:00) after we got all packed up and hit the trail.

Now if you look closely you will see that Blake has a wacko look on his face. Most of you, upon seeing this will think nothing out of the ordinary has occurred. However, you will have been gravely mistaken. You see, the first night we hiked in, I, thinking it was a relaxing stroll of only 3.5 miles didn't bother to unload any of the food that we brought. Well, after about dying by the time we hit camp (sometime long after dark) the night before, Blake, conscience stricken declared "SHARE THE LOOOOOAAAAADDDD..." to which I gladfully dumped at least half the food into his pack. We also at this time tried to "SHARE THE LOOOOOAAAAAAD" for the pregnant backpacker. So I say all of this to let you know that the look on Bic's face is more the look of desperation than constipation, or mental stagnation:).


Here you will note that Melody (better known as Reeferson) took the lead and started doing some massive trail breaking. We tried to explain that there was no need to go through the fallen trees but she would have no part in our woosification.



So finally after an hour or 2 the troops rebelled and shouted "WE AIN'T GOIN NO FURTHER TILL WE'VE HAD A BREATHER! ... WE AIN'T HAD NOTHIN BUT MAGGOTY BREAD FOR THREE STINKING DAYS!! YEH! WE WANTS SOME MEATS!!! WHAT ABOUT THEM? THEY'RE FREEESSSH!" To which she (as caught on film) replied with "THESE ARE NOT FOR EATING!!" And then pretty much threatened us with her fist in our face.



And here is a Sweed and a Norwegian pretending that they like each other. Or something like that:). Maybe it was after the famous Oslo peace accord. Yeh, pretty sure about that, yeh, yeh pretty sure....

HOLIDAY day 1

So pretty much we had a supersweet holiday last week!!!! We drove north to da land were de say Yah to da U.P. eh!


We went backpacking for 1 day plus a half a day plus a half a day. Then we took a couple of days to get back home. It was incredibly relaxing in spite of hiking 5 miles the first evening as opposed to the planned 3.5 (a slight navigational miscalculation! We won't mention whose fault that was). We got into camp the first night at night and set up in the dark. But we sure enjoyed our campfire!! I went and played beaver and knocked down half the forest while Bic and his girlfriend Melody were kindling some flames.:)

You can see, there is Angela and I off to the left and Bic and Melody in the middle of it all:) hehe

In case you can't make us out in this picture here is some help:


Dis here is Bic Vanwhelenburgenhoffen. Basically dis here is a Sveed and you can call him Olie (just make sure you call him loud he lost his hearin workin wit Jay Larson up at da lumberyard or is he da guy on tv?)


Dis here Melody Reeferson. She da craziest smokin Norvegian I efer seen. Leave it to da Norvegians to carry not just two but tree logs at once to da fire. And ta be da first one to da finish line even dough her good friend Jack Wolfskin started gifen out.


Den der is da selfproclaimed Caboose who was brave to hike wit a bunch of scandinavians when she is as pregnant as a moose (27 weeks). She held her own when stealing lumber from da neighbors too. Must be the Anglo Saxon blood from her ancient viking ancestors! Or maybe just case she's a little loopy.



Oh yeh, and don't forget about Johann Yerface. He just about died crossing a log bridge. Which would haf made da rest real happy so dey didn't have to hear anymore about his nephew Jimmy who wrote that one song about an ocean liner going down in da great sea of the Hootchie Mama when dat big typhon caused a tidal wave, or whatever de call it and by da way, did you know that his realated to dat one guy on tv, what's his name..... oh yeh I tink it is that David Letterfield guy.......