Tuesday: We went to the Pancake House for breakfast. This place is crazy! The serving sizes there would probably be sufficient for a small army, not just one person. We all ordered what they call "plate-sized" pancakes. These things are HUGE! Think pizza pan size. But they are sooo delicious! I got their new pineapple pancake with coconut syrup. Best pancake ever! The syrup made it super yummy. It was like Hawaii in my mouth. I only ate about half of it though...so filling! Then we spent the rest of the day hanging out on the lake. We love to just lie on the dock and sleep. The lake was freezing so we didn't do a whole lot of swimming.
Wednesday: We rented some jet skis and took them out on the lake for a couple of hours. So much fun! I love jet skiing. It wasn't a super hot day, and the water was still freezing, (obviously) so we got pretty cold. It was a lot of fun though. After jet skis, we went back to our dock for a while, and then out to a new pizza place for dinner.
Thursday: Lexi's friend, Brooklyn, and my sister, Sam, got to McCall late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning. I woke up around 8 and went for a little run. Seriously, if you want to be a runner, McCall is the place to do it. It had rained the night before so everything was wet and smelled wonderful. It's such a gorgeous place. Also, it was fun because there's lots of other people out running around and everyone is super friendly like we've known each other for years. I love that. The rest of the family didn't get up and going until around noon. Lazies! We spent the rest of the day being lazy on the dock mostly. That night we went for a little drive around the lake and up to Sharlie's Point; a little lookout place where you can mostly see the whole lake.
Friday: Hike day! My mom found this place in a book about hikes to do in McCall, and decided that that was the one we would do. It was supposed to be an easy hike, one mile each way, and lead us to a lake. I don't think any of that was true. The "trail" was a stream half the time and a muddy mess the other half. It was uphill all the way, and I'm fairly certain it was more than a mile. We hiked for a while and eventually the trail disappeared and there was no lake in sight, just more mountain to climb. So, we turned around and went back to the car. While we were hiking, Mitch caught a little baby frog. For some reason I got really excited about it. I don't really do little creepy crawly animals like frogs, snakes, lizards, etc. They creep me out. But, I fell in love with this frog. I even held him in my hands! That was a crazy experience for me. He was super jumpy, and every time he jumped, so did I. Eventually, I decided that I had traumatized him enough and I put him back. We found a few more frogs after that. I loved them too. Then we found a giant, ugly toad. I hated him. He was DISGUSTING! I just like babies. Okay, that story was probably not near as exciting to you as it was to me. Sorry. After our hike we did more of the same, eating and chilling on the dock. Before we went out to dinner, Lexi, Brooklyn, Mitch, and I decided to go check out the haunted house. Up the hill from our cabin is this abandoned hotel that was built in 1914. I had always heard from my family members that it was haunted...or just creepy and old and abandoned...but I had never seen it for myself. Unfortunately, we didn't get very close to it because there were about ten "No Trespassing" signs all over in its front yard. And, there was a little trailer house in the front corner of it with a car parked in it. We are all goody-goodies and decided that it probably wouldn't be our best idea to test if those people really meant business with their signs. So we looked at it from afar. It really is old and creepy looking though. I wish we could have gotten closer. After this little adventure, we went to an ice-skating show. We thought it was a professional show, but it turned out to be a recital-type-thing for the local skating classes with a professional guest couple. It was kind of fun to watch, but after we had been there for an hour, they told us that they were having a 20 minute intermission. We decided it wasn't thrilling enough to wait 20 minutes for it to start again, so we went and got dinner instead.
Saturday: We went to the pancake house again for breakfast. Yum Yum! Then we went kayaking. There is this place at the north end of the lake that rents out kayaks and canoes that you can take down the river. That is another one of our McCall traditions. So, of course, we did that. Oh, cool story! There is this cabin down the road from us, and every time that we drove past it this week we were sure that we saw a bobcat on a leash chilling out in the driveway. We were curious about it so we took a little stroll down the road. Sure enough, there was a bobcat sitting there in the driveway. We asked the guy if we could take a picture and he was just great with that. Then he let us pet him and even picked him up and put him in Lexi's arms! She freaked out a little. He was kind of growling at her...or purring? The guy said that he knows this lady who raises bobcats for pets and that's where he got him. Crazy huh? And he takes him to preschools and lets him sleep in his bed and stuff. He's just a big kitty (that could tear him to pieces if he wanted to). So yes, that was super exciting for us.Then we wandered around downtown for a little bit and ordered some Mexican food for dinner. The Mexican restaurant is called Si Bueno. I love that. Yes Good. Ha! Anyway, after dinner we watched Monsters Inc. on ABC Family while Brooklyn did our nails. This girl is incredible painting nails. So we all took advantage of her talent. My nails look wonderful!!
Sunday: We packed up and left. I hate that part. Now I am home, which is nice but I miss McCall. I would be happier to be back if I didn't have to go back to work in the morning. It's supposed to be 94 degrees! Mowing lawns all day is definitely not what you should do with those kinds of temperatures. It's going to be miserable. Good thing I have my friends. I sure did miss them this week. Wow, that was more than a brief summary. Oh well.
P.S. I have pictures but they will probably be going on facebook only. That simplifies life for me a little bit.
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