We started the trip off by going to small water park with some friend thought it would be good idea to leave them here to hotel since it’s 12 hour trip I know most people will try to drive though it but we thought it would be a good idea to get hotel to get some sleep and get back on the road in the morning.
We got up early morning around 6:30 am ate breakfast at the hotel then started our 7 – 8 hour trip ahead of us to the cabin were the rest of the family is at. the trip started off nice traffic wasn’t to bad we started the long trip made sure did bathroom breaks along with get gas tried to time it along with when the kids had to go to the bathroom.
After 8 hours we make it to the hospital due to medical issue with my wife’s mom so we decided to stop at target to get some food then we meet the family at the hospital then take the kids to the park then go back to the hospital to get the go head to go to the cabin however we get to the administration building to realize the leader of the group has to be there in order for us to get the keycard to get in so as we waited for the leader of the group came we got ice-cream and looked around at the gift shop lets not forget I managed to not know were we are going so then leader of the group gets there she gets in line then soon after that the rest of the family shows up in that same spot while waiting the kids are playing games since in this area they have basketball court and few other games that can be played after the leader of the group got checked in we all got key cards and headed to the cabins I thought I’d just follow people since I had no clue where I was going..
We get to the cabin it was amazing I was thinking there would be like 3 bathrooms we would share but instead we all had our own bathrooms in our room the only thing is no air conditioner but they do have heat but it didn’t seem like we needed on since leaving the windows open cooled the whole cabin down. They did put fans in each room to use as well which did come to use later on to.
Day 1 – Was day we just kicked our feet up and relaxed and just enjoyed each others company.
Day -2 Went to indoor rock climbing wall with my step son I tell you what I learned real fast as to how out of shape I am and how not smart it was to do when with hurt shoulder.
Day 3 – went swimming then skating – I never realized how much uncomfortable skates are until I went skating but I guess as kid it doesn’t hurt them as much as it hurts us adults.
Day 4 – Went hiking with step son and realized how bad of an idea it was for my but not for him since he was ahead of me most of the time he did know I’d stay on the trail so eventually I’d catch up to him as he hiked higher to the mountain. to me it was alot of pain below my waist it was sure a struggle to get up the mountain I seen old people hiking so I said to my self if they can do it then I can do it so I kept going at this rate my ankle was hurting my thigh was having muscle spasm I felt like I was doing pretty good until these girls come jogging by I saw them twice go up the mountain and down realized how slow I was going even think I saw elder couple zip past me. it must be something in the air at this rate but I made it to the top. but then coming down I saw path that was bit different said to my self “Maybe this i faster” but then I stopped turned around hiked the other way since I knew my step son was going to be going down the same way I was i saw him then he said he’d meet me at the bottom so as I’m trying to get down the mountain as fast as I can trying not let my ankle pain, thigh, calf pain bug me I kept on going then I get a call from my step son informing me that he’s lost. My first thought was to ask him what he saw he mentioned a road so I told him to go toward the road he did so he got a better cell phone signal I was able to pull up the find me app on my phone and find him he ended up walking to the van we drove back to the cabin .
I thought I’d be able to sit down relax for few hours but I ended up having to help out with making dinner there was another hike planned sounded like more fun but at least this hike was it up a mountain and was on level ground
