Holiday Weekend

I hope you all had a wonderful long holiday weekend.

I sure did.

We got to the lake Thursday at 4pm. 

After selling our lake home we would always just rent a house to go to the lake. (there are no hotels)

But this time we decided to try renting a condo. 

Bernards Landing is a big resort. It has condos and carriage homes. 

It has a conference center, restaurants, pool, tennis courts, shops etc.

In the photos online at VRBO it all looked great. There were docks with electricity for us to use with our visitors pass. It was small but clean and nice. We had all we needed. What we were not told is that it was the 3rd floor and the dock was a helluva hike. Great more stairs. Yipee. An old dog and 2 old farts who really didn't want to hike up 3 flights of stairs - but we did. 

Here is a photo of Rick and Izzy going down to the dock. I took this from our balcony. Looks nice enough of a walk right?

But the walk up was not fun. By the 3rd day, it was far easier but let me tell you the first day it was a surprise and a helluva hike. 

Or as my husband says, I leave my lawn chair and cooler with a nice buzz and I sober up by the time I'm at the house. See the teeny tiny condos up there? Yeah looks worse from this end doesn't it though?

When we got back up to the house this was at the top of the trail to the house.
How appropriate don't you think? It made us laugh. Like they knew we were coming. We wondered how often this defibrillator was actually used after that hike.


















This was off our balcony of some of the resort. It's very large and basically a peninsula.

See the docks below? This too was off our balcony. Sure they aren't like at a house with a roof etc but it worked. We just made sure to cover the boat when we left due to all the rain we had all weekend.

They allowed dogs on this tiny beach area. Beyond the trees are little-thatched roofs with lounge chairs there.  So after a day of boating and island hopping, we would go to sit at this beach for awhile...you know before that hike!

This was a helluva storm that came in. We got an alert on Rick's phone that a storm was coming in. We were on the other side of the lake anchored in a cove playing around in the water.  Rick got out to see what the urgent beeping was for. Seeing the storm was coming quickly we got ourselves packed up and we high tailed it back. As you can see it was just in the nick of time. 
It got so dark and then it just poured all night. We got to the condo and then it began to rain. We made perfect timing.

Thankfully this house had a couple of great big TV's and Netflix to watch. So we came inside, made cocktails and made some popcorn. Izzy slept through it all. She is so exhausted after swimming from 5:30a until dusk that she sleeps really well. Still gets up at 5:30a but each day she slept most of the evening from dinner on.

This was the fog over the mountains in the morning after that storm.  It was great the rest of the time. 

Izzy was exhausted from fishing and swimming. She loves this spot at Rick's feet while he drives the boat. 

Here is the Wonder Dog below with her bumper in her mouth. The kids at this small little beach loved throwing this for Izzy. We loved them throwing this for Izzy. The parents thanked us for letting their kids play with her and throw her bumper. Silly them, we loved it because our fat asses weren't having to throw this 100x.
Izzy was in heaven as were these kids. The 4 yr old was so funny. He was walking behind Izzy at one point and just picked up her tail and looked at her butt and undercarriage. Who knows what he was looking for. But it sure made all we adults have a laugh watching this kid.

This is the "don't you feel guilty because you won't take me back down to the water"  look. That look only works on Rick. I need to learn how to perfect that look because my goodness she gets anything she wants when she looks at him like this.