It's a Wrap!

After saying good-bye to the Lake (and all of our relatives), and dusting the sand off the car floorboards and mats, we were on our way home (it was 8:52 a.m. CT). The trip home was uneventful (although we did meet Beth & Bill at Culver's in Rice Lake (WI) for lunch, and stopped in Janesville for some Wisconsin cheese and New Glarus Beer). We arrived home at exactly midnight (ET), just slightly over 14 hours after we left.

Here's the wrap-up for our Cass Lake 2016 vacation:

Dates: June 30 thru July 16 This was our 12th year at Cass Lake, our 11th at Birch Villa Resort.

People who vacationed with us: Both weeks – Tom, Linda, Leah & Chloe (cabin 7, BV); Paul, Melissa, Tommy & Benjamin (cabin 6, BV); Roy, Deb, Luke, Kara, Leah & Erin (1st wk- Townhome, 2nd wk- cabin 5, BV).

1st week only- Jared (1st 4 days only), Seth & Maddie (with us in cabin 7); Tom & Barb (Melissa’s parents);

2nd week only- Mom & Dad K (Sah-Kah-Tay cabin 9); Bill, Beth, Elise, Zach, and Rebekah (Elise's friend) (Sah-Kah-Tay apt. over lodge).

Price of gas: $2.09 - $2.49. We took the Honda CR-V w/car top carrier and bike rack, and put around 2000 miles on the car for the whole trip. Jared took Tom's Toyota Prius. Seth and Maddie came in their Ford Focus.

Number of fish caught: 132 (58 Rock Bass, 63 Perch, 6 Bluegill, 3 Crappie, 1 Northern Pike, 1 Walleye).
Brought home: 101 (ate some, and gave Seth and Maddie 4 bags-full to take home); we ended up with 19 freezer bags full.

Restaurants we ate out at: Hard Rock Café (Lunch w/Brian & Jill S at MOA), Zorbaz, Lucky Moose, Ruttger’s, and Tutto Bene’s.

Biking: Tom biked 230 miles. I biked 135 miles. We biked portions of the Heartland Trail, around Pike Bay on the Migizi trail, around Cass Lake, around Lake Bemidji, portions of the Paul Bunyan trail and the Mississippi River Trail, and various other Minnesota country roads.

Church Attended: Evangelical Free Church of Bemidji

Other activities: College visits (St. Olaf and Macalester), Mall of America, Shopping in Walker, ForestEdge Winery, Paul Bunyan and Babe, Movies in Bemidji (Finding Dory, Legend of Tarzan), egg toss, kayaking, tubing, etc.