What??????? Keith's gone fishing! What's next....hunting, bear wrestling, or car repair? No folks, I am afraid to say this was a one time event. I'll call it a male bonding experience for me, my soon to be brother-in-law Greg, my dad, Grandpa, Uncle Randy, and cousins Austin and Nick.
We spent a beautiful Memorial Day weekend fishing, eating a crap ton of bar food (10 bar meals to be exact), and playing cards. While these are not normally events I would participate in and are definitely way outside of my zone of comfort, I think I did pretty damn good job of hangin' in there!! I always find that I have a great time and am glad to have the time to spend with the people I don't get to see very often.
Our cabin! It was a duplex cabin and had two
separate living/eating/cooking quarters attached by a door.
I called this the "Body Shed." Still not sure what was in there, but it was in our backyard.
One of the views from our cabin.
NATURE AT ITS BEST!!!
THE RAMP-UP TO THE FISHING EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!
The very first day. I had to take a "before" shot just in case I didn't survive.
This was the "nice" boat. Let's just say that the motors were SO
sucky on these boats that my dad had a few choice words with them. I think I saw him get in a fist fight with another one.
HOW MY DAD AND I SPENT OUR FIRST 3 HOURS FISHING...BROKEN POLES AND TANGLED FISHING LINE!
This is the pile of fishing line I had to cut off of one of my poles!
FINALLY, SOME REAL FISHING...
Captain Dad
Oh, he got one.....
My Uncle Randy's fish....
My Grandpa's fish....
My cousin Austin's fish....
A self portrait
My first fish....a Northern Pike. Poor guy got a hook through the eye, but when we released him back in the water, he didn't swim in a circle so I assumed his sight was just fine!
Not a big fan of touching the fish...so my dad got a picture of me with apparently the fish's tail.
I think my dad thought I was acting so ridiculous that he just held it up MY fish and I half held on to it. Haha....my plan worked EXACTLY!
Chalk up another one for Grandpa! Alright Grandpa, now your just gloating!
Another one for dad!
Dad and Greg fishing
Yawn....another one for Grandpa. This guy should have his own fishing show. But I don't think the guy who bleeps out bad words would be able to keep up with him, so maybe not.
My attempt at an "artistic" shot failed miserably.
Nick's fish
Captain Greg
Uncle Randy, Austin, and Nick fishing
Greg and Dad coming in for a landing
Okay, laugh ALL you want. See the follow-up blog and you will see that I am believed to have second degree burns on my hands. I had to wear gloves on the second to last day to avoid further damage.
Austin and Nick playing cards.
The last day....we are all glad to be going home.
The End!!!!
3 comments:
Fantastic!! You've captured the entire trip beautifully - I feel like I was actually in the boat fishing with you! The line about the TV 'bleep' guy not being able to keep up with grandpa made me laugh so hard! You really should hire yourself out to design/maintain other people's blogs!!
When are you posting the Polaroids??
Boy your father sure looks young. I though it was your brother. He looks like such a nice guy. You are very lucky. Is he really as distinguished as he looks.
Did he really just sit back and drink beer while you were burning the crap out of your hands. Did he really screw up your cell phone by bathing it in his beer cooler. Maybe he is not so nice afterall.
But he sure looks distinguished.
Nice job with the blog!!!
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