If you are here to see some new card pickups in today's post, I must apologize, those won't be in today's post.
Today's post will be a vacation recap from 4th Of July week and it features an old friend from many, many years ago.
So, if you like food, coffee, lakes and old friends, keep reading.
My vacation kicked off with Strawberry Shortcake made with fresh strawberries I picked the day before. My wife is a pro at making these photo worthy.
The following day, it was the beginning of camp week. Every year for the past four years, my sister-in-law rents a camp out on a lake for the entire family to come together from afar. These camps are usually only about twenty or thirty minutes from my house. So, it's not a real kind of trip, but it's still a getaway for me!
This is the second year in a row at this camp, but it could also be the last one. The camps owner just sold her actual house, so now she stays here most of the year but decided to rent it out for six weeks this year. She may not do this again going forward so we may be looking at a new spot next year.
I decided since this may be it, I might as well dig out an old friend to say goodbye to it as well. So, I dug out my wallet card. It's the card that is supposed to be in the Coffee Card Hall Of Fame but still hasn't been pulled out yet.
It will be after this trip. Two farewells.
Wallet card is beaten but not broken. Well, until he found out the camp owner may be a UConn fan then was very broken. That's my least favorite college team especially for basketball.
Up next, I got to experience my very first and probably last "ritzy" high end restaurant.
My sister-in-law chose a fancy place out in the boonies where a restaurant took a Victorian style house and transformed it into an extravagant place of eating. Each part of the house has a "room". The one we were in had a fireplace and in ground garden around the outside of the room, pretty cool. Others had huge fireplaces, original wallpaper, elegant statues, etc.
I didn't take a sneak peek online to see what they offered for food so I didn't know what to expect when the menus were handed out. My wife and I almost fell out of our seats when we saw the prices on the menu for this place for basic food.
I chose the cheapest meal there was, despite my sister-in-law covering the cost.
For $26, I got three very small tasteless waffles, 2 strips of bacon, a very small fruit cup, a cube size slice of cinnamon bread and
a Berry crumble dessert.
For $26 I expected my waffle to have at least a few shavings of gold on top. $26 for waffles! CRAZY! I can make better waffles at home with coffee, they only offered water-juice-alcohol, for less than $5.
I was not impressed for a first timer. My wife wasn't either with the meal she had chosen. Maybe we aren't fine dining type of people.
All done with the food talk, now back to camp.
We made plenty of fire nights with S'mores (which tasted better and costed less than $26..sorry I said I was done with that talk) and just family game time.
The weeks weather was beautiful.....and hot.
So beautiful and hot that one day it required a tour of Ben & Jerry's to cool us down.
I had to visit the flavor cemetery and get very emotional over my favorite flavor that is no longer. RIP Oatmeal Cookie Chunk. Til we see each other again someday when I am in heaven. I hope Jesus sits right next to me and we share a pint (well separate pints because it's really hard to share this flavor)
We then went to a local mom and pop shop to grab some supper. It was much cooler than I expected.
The owner's son had built all of these Lego sets and a lot more including a full size Millenium Falcon. That must have taken forever and cost a pretty penny to purchase.
and they also had plenty of food offerings including breakfast like this amazing cinnamon roll.
Overall, it was a fun relaxing-jammed pack-week. I always love family time, and we had a great time together.
The hobby is fun and all, but give me this any day instead.
*Coffee Card Blogger Out*
