Cabin + 9 people = Fun : Divide By Zero

So this past weekend I went up with about 9 people to my grandma’s cabin. This included my two brothers, cousin, and 6 friends.

Friday night was mostly spent playing Rock Band and Grand Theft Auto IV. We did watch Patriot Games, though. Not really a unique cabin-going experience, I know. People tried to play “Twin Cities�? (a rip-off of Monopoly) but once I started playing GTA IV the ferocity of the board game dwindled until we started passing around the controller for epic, civilian-killing sprees.

Saturday was more “productive.�? We went out on the pontoon on the lake and some of us went tubing while others hung out and swam on the beach. We also played a few innings of baseball which was fun.

After going to the beach we decided to go to the pool, since it was a bit chilly and windy out and some people decided that they didn’t want to swim in the lake (me being one of them). We played a healthy game of “throw the bouncy balls at each other from across the pool,�? trying not to get in the way of everyone else there which I suspect failed miserably.

Later in the day we played some more Rock Band, GTA IV, and Scattergories. We were going to watch a movie but the rental store was closed and DSL just can’t transfer videos from my computer to my laptop over the internet very fast. We stayed up for awhile that night talking (us older folk, the young’uns slept downstairs) about things college-going types talk about: anything.

Sunday morning we went and played baseball and basketball. My feet were sore by the end since running in sandals hurts. We ate lunch and then played Charades until it was time to leave. Charades the board game is way too hard for young people who have no idea what any of the stuff on the cards is, so we made up our own game by writing “Songs and Bands�? on pieces of paper and drawing them out of a bucket. It worked great even though some of us were cruel (try acting out “Daft Punk�? or “Boston�?).

It was a great time and we got Dairy Queen on the way back. I would have liked to stay a bit longer… but there were a lot of people.

I took my camera to take pictures but I didn’t. I just don’t take pictures, it takes too much effort.