Dead Lake Weekend

This year our planned extended weekend at Dead Lake was this past weekend. The forecast wasn't very promising, but we decided to go for it and left on Friday morning. We got to Dana's parents' cabin, unloaded and hit up Zorbaz for lunch on Otter Tail.

After we got back, we did some four-wheeling and then headed into Fergus to visit our good friends who live just outside of town.

They built a new house three years ago and finally made it over to see it. Monica gave us a tour of the property as well and brought the .22 in case we came upon the pesky skunk that's been lurking around.

While we visited and waited for Adam to come home from work the kids all got into painting faces with make-up on paper plates.

Adam was commissioned to be the judge...

Once the winner (Drew!) was awarded, we went out to eat at the Legion for supper. Thanks for a side-splitting fun time, Petersens!

It got a little late for Clara by the time we got back.

Rain was forecast for Saturday as well. We were disappointed to learn that the strawberries at Herzog's (where we've gone picking before) weren't quite ready yet. Brynn and I still made it to Ellie's Antiques down the road though. Brynn tried on some of the merchandise. :-)

We had a lunch picnic on the pontoon...

The girls played their story dice game..I forget the name of it now.

Just as it started to rain we headed over to my parents' for supper.

Sunday was a beautiful day and, of course, the same day we headed home, but we stayed pretty late to make the most of it. The girls picked some flowers for me before we left.

Thanks, Holly and Kevin, for letting us have our run of the place while you were on your bike trip!

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theweckerlys said…

Oh fun times! So good to see the Petersens!

June 25, 2019 at 12:58 PM

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