Things that are fun:

• Going to Nate’s parents’ cabin
• Seeing my mom for the first time in a while
• Showing my mom the cabin and have her fall in love with it
• Sitting on the dock and dangling our feet in the cold water
• Kayaking on the lake
• Cookin’ hot dogs!
• Putting up our new tent sans rain shroud because “look at how clear the sky is, it’s not going to rain”

Things that are less fun:

• Frantically running to the tent as a storm starts and trying to put up the rain shroud in the dark

Yeah. Thanks Canada weather, appreciate it.

Also: tents are impossible to fit back in their original packaging. Once they’re free of their confinement, they grow like 300%.