Weekend on the Mountain

Last weekend M went to "Snow Camp" up on Mt. Hood. Drop off was 6:30 Friday and pick up 1pm Sunday - makes perfect sense that D and I got a cabin nearby to spend the weekend. I had stayed at this wonderful cabin last summer when she went to summer camp at Arrah Wanna, so just had to book the same place for D & I to stay this time.

We drove up Friday and got there early enough to check-in to the cabin before dropping M off at camp. We hung out there for a little while, played the "Worst Case Scenario" board game (way fun, actually), then headed back down to "town" for dinner at the Zig Zag Inn. YUM!!! M was too excited to get to camp to even have dessert...can you believe that?

So, after dropping her off at camp, we hit the Thriftway to buy a few "essentials" for the weekend - you know, ice cream, candy, cookies, chips - we were NOT responsible adults! In fact, when we got there and unpacked the bags, we had to chuckle b/c the counters looked like a teenager who had just spent the "grocery money" when parents went away for the weekend.

Friday nite we watched "Burn After Reading"...more like "Burn Before Watching" (D's joke, can't take credit for that one, but totally agree!). The only good thing about the movie was watching Brad Pitt play a dumbshit body builder - he nailed it! OH, and George Clooney is hot as ever. Other than that...it sucked!

After the lackluster movie, we went in the hot tub...it's outside at the cabin, so as we're sitting in the hot tub, we're getting rained/snowed on - way cool! Have decided we so totally need a hot tub at home! More TV after our post-hot tub showers, then off to bed.

Saturday I slept in till noon-ish while D spent time reading, watching Lethal Weapon (the cabin has a few movies there to watch), playing cards, hanging out, etc. We played some cards, watched some more movies/TV, read, I worked on my cross stitch, he worked on cross word puzzles...and otherwise did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday nite D made me spaghetti with meat sauce and Texas Toast - yummy! Played more cards before watching another movie - "Shakespeare in Love" - always a favorite! We also watched "Chicago" earlier in the day - not what I expected, but loved it nonetheless.

Sunday we had to be out of the cabin at 11, so we got up and packed up and headed out. Had some time to kill before picking up M at camp so we went and parked in the Thriftway parking lot and slept. Shockingly, D's tummy wasn't too happy (sure it has nothing to do with the snack foods we'd been living on all weekend!).

Picked M up at camp and headed home in time for the SuperBowl (GO STEELERS!).

Our weekend up on the mountain made us really discuss getting a "vacation home" someday. BUT - we decided that besides having to choose between the beach and the mountain (hard choice), we'd also have to use it enough to off set the costs of having it. Not to mention the maintenance of it (you would be surprised how many of the homes near this cabin had tarps on them, theoretically as a result of snow damage to sky lights and such). We do have the Trendwest time share-ish thing that we can go anywhere they have a resort and stay for almost free, so it's kinda the best of both worlds. Still - I'd LOVE to have a mountain cabin - I do love my Mount Hood!