Oh go dig in the snow!

One of the biggest bodies of water on the east coast besides the Atlantic is Moosehead Lake. Ben's employer has a camp on Moosehead that we took my father in-law and his brother up to for a long weekend. Here are me and my boys getting ready to make the trek into camp. We fished 17 traps for 2 days straight and only caught 5 fish, 4 cusk and a landlocked salmon. Oh well at least we had fun even without fish action. I was lucky enough to pull the biggest fish out of the lake. Check out the slimey eel like cusk, yuck they are almost a snake and ewwwww that is gross.

Woof loved the trip as he got to sleep inside and some of our guests have been known to feed him from the table. One afternoon we were getting ready to have lunch and Woof was doing some serious begging, I opened the door, pointed outside and told him to go dig in the snow, I may never live that one down. Oh Woof life is rough huh, especially when your mom's mean and it is so windy out you look like the flying nun.

Having guests is a great excuse to get out and do stuff. Pretty hard to believe that this view is just 2 hours north of our home. Awesome huh?
This past weekend the University of Minnesota Morris touring choir passed through Bangor. We were lucky enough to be a host family for 4 boys from our home state. The boys were as nerdy as you can imagine choir boys would be. They agreed the only reason they were in choir was to meet girls and I was thinking uhm, yes you are all going to need all the help you can get, especially you shirt and tie guy with the horrible gas problem.

Killer Bunnies

The tourists are here, the tourists are here. We have had company the last couple of weeks and it has been pretty nice. Last week my sister and her husband were here. We ate alot, too much really, played a bunch of games and hit New York City.

Saturday morning we caught the train outta the home of Yale University, New Haven Connecticut. I did not see any billboards up of President Bush, apparently he is not their most notable graduate. Unbeknowest to me the last 3 Presidents graduated from Yale as did Hilary Clinton. Looks like that streak is going to be broken! The train was a pretty quick, cheap and easy way to get to Manhattan. My brother in-law Jason had never ridden a train and both him and Ben had never been to NYC, what a day for them.

While in New York we did what New Yorkers do. NO really we didn't. We hit all the official tourist spots including Times Square, The Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Battery Park and the Statue of Liberty, the WTC remains and Central Park. We also spent alot of time staring into the sky just like all the other million tourists in town. But hey it was fun. Maybe next time I go I can get a real New York bagel with smear and see a celebrity or two.

We made it out of the Big Apple without harm after 2 short days. Some people had to get home to play more Killer Bunnies. Oh yeah and I had class on Monday. We just started playing Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot, it is a pretty goofy game but with the right mix of people it can be quite entertaining. And yes that is a look of disgust on my face as once again I lost.

I am not quite sure how many times we got asked over the course of a week whether or not Kari's glasses looked funny. I don't know if they look funny, look at the picture below, do you think they look funny?