Here it is everyone!
What you’ve all been waiting for!!!
(I can hear you holding your breath)
No…it’s not any type of announcement like “I got a new job! I’m a highly paid successful photographer! Marlo is pregnant (she’s fixed it’s impossible so don’t get your hopes up)!”
It’s way better??
This is the long awaited final installment of our near month old trip to Minnesota.
TaDa!!
Maybe nobody is bored with photo after photo of us having the time of our lives at the lakes. Maybe everybody is.
Doesn’t matter because posting the images on my blog is the easiest way to get all the people that are in them to see them. And they’ve been asking.
So here it is, the last lake post of the year (I’m totally lying I’m going again in August).
We left our beloved Pelican Lake on Thursday morning after celebrating the 4th of July the night before. We had already enjoyed our first 5 days at the lake so much that we felt completely spoiled heading to somebody else’s cabin for another 4 days.
Before we arrived at our destination, we stopped at the beautiful Gull Lake Zorbaz for some grub and great live music performed by Jon’s friend John. John was gracious enough to be the musician at our wedding and he’s really really wonderful and talented. He’s also a new dad! No appearances were made by the newborn (it was soooo hot) but I do have some shots from the performance.
It was great to see a bunch of people we don’t get to be around very often! An afternoon well spent. Onward!
Christian is a grade school buddy of Jon’s and he and his girlfriend Jennie hosted our group of Minnesota friends for an incredibly fun weekend at his family cabin. 
As usual with this group, the moment we all get together we regress to behaving like shot taking college students, convincing ourselves that we are still quite young and capable of such shenanigans. It never takes long for us to end up in silly hats, playing cards, talking louder and louder, listening to great music…and drunk. It’s so fun.
This goes on and on until before you know it people are drinking out of watermelons, abusing the props, and men are in women’s restrooms. It’s chaos. 
We always rally like champions, learn nothing, and do it all over again. But it’s different this time! Because it’s on a boat!
We’re still learning about ‘sharing’.
The ‘wives’.
Not posed. Not surprising : )
Always has to have a melon in his hand. : )
One word: classy.
It only gets worse from here.
Told you.
It’s called a diaper and it’s a lake thing. Don’t ask questions. Just enjoy.
No we aren’t floating in our own pee. For some reason this lake had a high iron content or something scientific that gave it that hue.
Doesn’t get better than swimming in pee with your best friends : )
Except for throwing back your favorite beverage while wearing a diaper. 
Sigh. This is the reason for my MN obsession. Things like this. 
Nemesis.
Jammin’ to Beiber.
Shot pit stop at the lake’s only bar.
Saying farewell to his loyal companion.
Once sufficiently buzzed up we left the lake for some showers, yard games, more drinks and a killer sunset.
He’s gentler than he looks. Not scary in the least. 
Well maybe a little.
We’re all well fed…must be time for a booze cruise!
Awww. Look at that pretty loon. Wanna go to the bar and play pull tabs? YES! What a great idea! Let’s hug it out.
We ended the trip with a genius game of golf. Four couples – boys hit – girls putt. It was a really fun way to get the girls out on the course with the boys.
…and we played into the sunset.
We crammed a lot of fun into what is always never enough time. Jon and I were so exhausted from our vacation that we split our drive back into two separate days.
It was all worth it. These people are the people that make Minnesota so great and me so homesick all the time. I’m always grateful to them for pulling us back over and over again.
Midwest Mountainess 