Crystal Lake

We are super fortunate to have friends with a cottage on Crystal Lake. They offered it to us to use last year during our summer of college touring family vacations.

This year I asked if we could stay, so we could visit Grammy.

Driving down and back in one day is exhausting. We can’t stay at Grammy’s apartment as there is not enough room for a family of 6. The cottage is cozy, but with bunks and a futon, there is enough room for all of us to sleep.

There is also the pond. We can swim, the kids snorkel and play with the fish, kayak, or paddleboard. Since we are only here for 1 night we did not take all the water toys out, just the snorkels and masks. Becca took out one paddleboard.

Grammy had a lot of visitors when we arrived so we said a quick hello and went to the cottage. We swam and had dinner. Becca, Jacob and I went back after dinner to visit. Unfortunately, Grammy was not up to visitors when we returned so we went to the store for ice cream and back to the cottage. The kids were swimming when we returned so Becca brought out the paddleboard. We finished the evening with a movie, pie, and ice cream.

We woke to a light rain in the morning. I did not get to sit on the dock with my coffee, but the sound of the rain on the lake was very relaxing. We cleaned up, picked up, packed up the car and went to visit Grammy before driving back.