Cabin Weekend-Winter Edition Part 2

Time to finish up the rest of Cabin Weekend-Winter Edition.

Saturday I woke up around 9. I can’t seem to sleep in at the cabin…but I don’t care. I want to spend as much time with my friend’s as possible since I only see them a few times a year.

The day began with Bloody Mary’s and Mimosas around 10. It was at 10:30 I cracked open my first Spotted Cow, by myself, and the day of drinking began.

I had big plans to drink all day as the MVP of the weekend was up for grabs. A person could earn MVP for various reasons…being the most drunk (this is where I thought I had a chance), best outfit, etc.  Katie and Kallie picked up a wooden man thing at Goodwill the day before and they, along with Tess, constructed a trophy for the MVP.  This was the end result…pretty sweet, huh?  He even has a red solo cup.

Anywayyys, my friend Tom finally joined me in drinking around noon and we started playing drinking games…this continued on for hours. The only time we got up from the table was for bathroom breaks or if we needed more beer.

                           I think by early afternoon I was definitely not sober…but it’s alllll a little hazy.

Tom makes anything and everything into a drinking game.  We even had a game where you had to name the artist/song title of the music playing on the iPod. Loser had to drink, obviously.

 Throughout the entire day we were double fisting…always a great idea.

Evening came and we all started to get more drunk and a dance party/beer pong/baseball/multiple drinking games ensued.

…along with getting dressed in appropriate attire for the Rustic Woods Campground bar. This is always a highlight/favorite activity of our weekend.

After we get ready there is always a photo shoot!

The Girls

The "Pillars" aka they haven't missed a single cabin weekend. Still a liiiiittle bitter that I'm not one. I had to miss due to family vacay...won't happen again!

Some of the guys and their new staches!

The whole gang!

We’ve made it a tradition to go to the Rustic Woods bar on Saturday night of our cabin weekends. The bar is small but they have booze, a juke box, a pool table and we can walk…win for us. It's pretty much a big dance party/drinking fest. I can't even describe how much fun it is. We hang out with the locals...who definitely hated us at first but now love us and know to expect us around the last weekend in Feb and the last weekend of July.

The bar!

...I had so much fun that I dropped my iPhone and shattered the glass...awesome. I feel bad for everyone around me because drunk me made everyone look at it and hear the story over and over again...that must have sucked for them.

Sunday we woke up fairly early and began the clean up process. It amazes me how quickly we can get that place looking like we found it when we arrived on Thursday.

Once we were done we all voted for MVP of the weekend. Tess, Corey, Tom and I received votes but Tess/Corey received the same amount so they tied for MVP.  Can you see why they one? Those are some pretty quality outfits!

It was then time to leave and head to Milwaukee where I was flying out. Kallie, Erik and I made our usual stop in Oshkosh for fried cheese curds...as usual they were ahmayyyzing. 

I was sad to leave Wisco and my friends after an awesome weekend...but I'm already looking forward to summer edition!

Cabin Weeknd-Winter Edition, Part 1

Every 6 months my friend Katie invites a bunch of us up to her cabin in Wisco and two weekends ago we had the 3rd winter edition. In my effort to not make this my longest blog post everrr I'm splitting it up into two parts-Wed/Thur/Fri part 1 and Saturday will be in part 2.

I look forward to these two weekends and as soon as we set a date in stone for the winter/summer I immediately start a countdown...for real. In case you missed the recap of the Summer Edition you can read about the debauchery that it was here!

Anyways, I headed to Wisconsin on a Wednesday night. I hadn't been since July so I wanted to spend as much time there as possible. I flew into Milwaukee and on Thursday Kallie and I headed to Appleton, my hometown. We spent the day hitting up some of our favorite spots. One of my favorite parts of the day was getting to go to Copper Rock, a local coffee shop. I spent many nights my senior year of high school drinking lattes and doing homework...ok the homework part might be a stretch...it always turned into chatting with friends and getting little, if any, homework done.



The remainder of the day we spent with Kallie's family and then we headed to the cabin. Before we headed to the cabin though we made a pit stop at Wally World and picked up this gem! It was only $2 so we couldn't pass it up! I mean, how sweet is her sweatshirt?



There were only a few of us at the cabin the first night so obviously we drank and played drinking games. I kicked off a weekend of drinking with a Spotted Cow. If you know me you know that is my all.time.favorite.beer. I think it's partially because I only get it a few times a year, and because it's named "Spotted Cow." If you ever make a trip to Wisco, throw one back for me!

Friday morning we headed into town to do grocery shopping for the weekend and of course to get fried cheese curds from the local Culver's. Fried Cheese curds are another FAVORITE of mine. I talk about them way too much and as soon as I land in Wisconsin I start asking someone to take me to Culver's to get them. If you have never had them...which I hope is not the case, put these on your list (along with the Spotted Cow) to try! They.are.DELISH!



After shopping it was time to start drinking.duh. We played drinking games all afternoon while we waited for more people to arrive. Later in the evening we headed to a local pizza place to eat and drink (duh) some more. I'm still not sure how we didn't get kicked out of the restaurant. People seemed to either love us or completely hate us...can't say I blamed the ones that hated us. After drinking all afternoon we were not sober (no we did not drink and drive, we had DD's...because some people showed up right as we were leaving for dinner!)

Corey, Tess and I at dinner.


...halfway through dinner, this happened.



Yes, my friend Tess is laying on the floor. Just another reason why she is so great.

After dinner we went back and more of our friends had arrived along with these little guys...Gummy Bears soaked in liquor. I can't even begin to tell you how many ended up on the floor because we made drinking games like "toss the gummy bear in the air and try to catch it"...loser had to drink. With that being said, these will now be a staple at cabin weekends going forward.



You can imagine how the first night ended... A lot of empty beer cans/bottles and being drunk with my friends!

Cabin Weekend-Summer Edition

I'm finally getting a chance to blog about my trip to Wisco last weekend! I left Thursday around lunch time and arrived in Atown late afternoon. Kal picked me up and we immediately headed to do a little shopping for the weekend. I then met up with three of my high school friends Nick,Nate and Jordan for dinner and drinks! I hadn't seen my Nate in 2.5 years because he is currently teaching English in Korea. It was so great to see all of them and we had a blast at dinner! I left dinner with an aching stomach from laughing so hard. It was a great way to kick off the weekend.

Nick, Nate, Jordan and me!


Nate and me!


After dinner, Kal picked me up and we headed up to Katie's cabin. There were a few of us up there and at midnight we began celebrating Tess's birthday!




We had a jam out session and two of the song favorites were Taylor Swift's "Mean" and Jalson Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem"


Friday we got up and began the day with a run...yes a run. It was quite difficult on my part as I had one too many Spotted Cows the night before. We were then off to do grocery shopping and headed to the lake to spend the day on the Fun Station. I loooved the Fun Station!

The Fun Station!




Our other friends began to arrive around dinner time. We spent the evening hanging out, catching up and having a good old time!

Saturday morning I got up to run with Kal and Erik. I struggled to keep up with them but am happy that I made the effort to go. We then spent the day on the lake, hanging out and playing outdoor games. It was a blast. Saturday evening we all got ready and headed to the local bar. It turns out they had a DJ and a big cookout which was a blast. We danced and danced and danced!

The Girls


The Pillars...aka these people have been at all 4 cabin weekends. I missed the summer edition last year because we had a family vacation planned.




Dancing!


These pictures don't do justice as to how much fun the weekend was. I already am counting down for the winter edition!

Cabin Weekend-Summer Edition!

It is FINALLY here, Cabin Weekend-Summer Edition! I think I have been counting down for this weekend since we departed the cabin after the winter edition! I blogged about the winter edition here.

I'm working for a few hours this morning and then flying to my hometown early this afternoon and I can't.freaking.wait!

Tonight I will be having dinner with some high school friends and then Kal and I are headed to the cabin! Woo hoo!

This is the second time Cobes has had people up in the summer but last summer I didn't get to go because I was on vacation with my family. I have purchased some sweet items to wear (we kind of have themes when we are there)!

I am so looking forward to a weekend by the lake with good friends, good food (definitely not WW approved) and some good old Spotted Cow beer!

Enjoy the weekend, everyone!

On Wisconsin...

Today I am cheering on one of my favorite teams, the Wisconsin Badgers as they play TCU in the Rose Bowl! I'm hoping for a Badger victory and by the looks of the website below, the ESPN.com store is already planning on it! They have printed Badger Championship shirts :) I clicked to get one but sadly they had taken the link down :(.


http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/ESPN-Selling-Wisconsin-Rose-Bowl-Champion-Shirt-112520854.html


Another favorite site of mine, Sconnie Nation. They have some awesome Wisco apparel.
http://www.sconnie.com/

Let's go Bucky!!!

2010 100 Best Places to Live!

CNN posted its 2010, 100 best places to live and my hometown was number 96! While I am definitely biased I think that Appleton is a great place to live and I miss it! I was surprised that more South Carolina cities were not on the list!
Appleton has a ton of great things, especially fried cheese curds :) my most favorite thing in the world!!!

Growing up in Wisco....

One thing you will learn about me is that I grew up in Wisco and it will always be one of my favorite places! I've been in the south for 6 years now but make it back to Wisco quite frequently! In fact, six of my bridesmaids are high school friends!

Anyways, one thing that I've adapted well to is the style of the South! I love seeing Lilly Pulitzer, Vineyard Vines, Jack Rogers, polka-dots and plaids everywhere! I love that we dress up for games and that us Clemson girls (and other southern school girls) are always on the look out for that perfect oufit in our school colors to wear to a game!

My love for the style of the south will definitely come out in this blog and whenever I find something that I love or a cute site I will be posting it to share!