Cottage Getaway

My boyfriend and I were lucky enough to be invited out to our friends cottage in the Lake of the Woods this past weekend. After a two hour drive of pumping music, we arrived at this peaceful lake. We boated over to the cabin, unloaded all of our bags (mostly containing food) and settled in for the night listening to the cooing of the loons.

I awoke in the morning with the sun peeking through the blinds. After letting ourselves slowly wake up, our gang wiped together a glorious cottage-style breakfast with fresh fruit, scrambled eggs, toast and bacon.

The guys are all ready to dig in (and undoubtedly trying to sneak a bite)!

We cleaned up the breakfast mess and slowly worked our way over to the water. After jumping off the dock into the lake a few times, we thought we were ready to jump off some higher ledges.

We boated over to the cliffs where the daredevil types like to jump.

While there was no way of convincing me to jump, the guys had no trouble starting at the first ledge.

After a couple of jumps and back-flips off this one, my boyfriend felt crazy enough to go to the next ledge. 

Luckily, I persuaded him not to back flip off this one.

We capped the night off with a delicious meal of steaks, sweet potato fries and a summer salad. 

I must have been so excited for the meal that I forgot to take pictures!

The following morning the guys set off to golf in Falcon Lake. Us girls were happy to hang out at the dock. We read our books and magazines while catching a few rays.

Unfortunately we could only stay for the weekend! But it was an amazing cottage getaway with great friends, mouth-watering food and beautiful weather!