Sister Bay Wisconsin

So, I recently went on vacation with my parents out to Sister Bay Wisconsin to go Salmon fishing in Lake Michigan. Now, for those of you who aren't familiar with Sister Bay, it is in Door County, the far... far... tip of Wisconsin that branches up into Lake Michigan. Now, fishing Salmon is great, but I have a question, WHY did we drive 9 hours to go Salmon fishing when I very well know there are also Salmon in Lake Superior? Ah well, it was great to get away to some richy tourist town with all the cute shops, and Cherries galor... as that area is known for.... its Cherries... ummm... fresh Cherry pie!!! Any how, I didn't get much time to spend traveling around the touristy stuff since I had a bazzare schedule (I did get to go Parasailing though, fun!), and I refused to miss out on any chances to catch fish, so religiously at 3 am, I woke up and headed out to the Lake every day... if it wasn't thundering or raining that is. We then came in at 9 am, showered, took a nap, and at 2 or 3 pm.... out to fish again until 9 o'clock pm... yeah... You know what the great part is, we kept fishing in the wrong spots!!!! Yes, we did figure it out on the day we left *smirk*. Go figure... Of course, we did catch fish... about one or two a day, so at least I got up early for something, but we should have had 8 a day at least.

The first day, we went in one bay and caught little, the next day we switched bays and caught one or two. The next day we went back to the same bay, and it was windy, so we caught nothing (Salmon usually don't bit much in six foot swells, luckily we had a big boat though :) ). The next day we went to another bay and caught little. The day after that we went back to the bay we caught little in and the next two days we caught one or two fish. Now, the funny part is that the Salmon hadn't moved into the bay we kept fishing in yet, they were in the second bay we had gone to, but whenever we went there it was windy so it wasn't productive so we didn't know... until some buddies from the camp site asked, "So how many fish did you catch this morning?" Our response, "Well one 17.6 pounder." They replied, "Yeah, we got 7 or 8 and so did Chuck, we were over in the other bay, the Salmon haven't moved over to the bay you were fishing in yet." Mind you this was the last day we had open to fish.... Ah well. One cool thing though, I caught a Steelhead.. 9 pounds. It only took me my whole vacation to figure out what exactly a stealhead was... at first I was excited about catching a new fish that I had never caught before, and later I learned that I had caught a steelhead before, since they are really rainbow trout, they just change colors to silvery in the summer... but hey, it was the biggest one I have ever caught thus far.

How to avoid the sun/heat.....

So this weekend I started off my fun avoiding the sun by going out to my friend Scott's house and going swimming. Okay, so I didn't avoid the sun, but I did stay cool. Then after swimming in the sun all afternoon, we waited until dark to go to my Brother's air conditioned house to watch TV and play pool?? It all worked out though because I didn't get burnt and I had a good time. The next day, I did an even better job of avoiding the sun and heat... :) In 90 degree weather, me and my Brother bought a tub and were out on the lake fishing, and of course you have to step out of the canopy to cast, right? I also had every intention of staying cool, as I wore my nice swim suit exposing my very white legs, and wore sun screen 75 SPF... let me tell you that didn't work. After a while, Scott came out to join us on the lake and we played in the water tubing for an hour or so, and then me and my brother went back to fishing. Noticing my pink skin and the pain radiating from my skin, I put on more sun black and questioned my Brother about going in, especially since he told my sister-in-law we would be back around 6 pm and it was 7, but my Brother simply stated, "Just one more fish." Never mind the fact that this was the third time he had said that, after we had already caught another keeper (Walleye, Small mouth bass, crappies, large mouth bass, sun fish, blue gill, and rock bass were all caught that day). So just as the sun was starting to go down my Brother brought me home and I left again to visit some friends and relax in air conditioned environments... :)

In the end I was in air conditioning at night and direct sun light during the day... I am burnt, but I had a blast!

Off roading in my Toyota Corolla

I blacked out and went 4-wheeling in the ditch with my Toyota Corolla... opps.... oh and I think I had a stroke a few days before that... not to worry though my car and me are fine and I am going to the doctor tomorrow. I wish I could have at least remembered the 4-wheeling part though, what good is 4-wheeling if you don't remember?

My Dad has decided I need to get married?!??!

So my Mom, my Dad, and me were standing in the kitchen talking one day and my Dad states, "You need to find someone to take care of you and get married." My Mom (bless her heart) trying to save me states, "Honey, she kind of needs a boyfriend first." My Dad states back, "What do you mean, she is going out with a different guy each week." To which I protest, "Dad, those are my friends." He then states, "It doesn't matter, same difference. You need to just pick one and stick with them. You are going to get married within the next year." He then wandered off. The sad thing was that my Dad was dead serious, what to do.................... Honor thy Mother and thy Father... I guess I will be getting married faster then I thought... I better start looking, it takes a while to plan a wedding after all and I want to know the guy I marry some what at least......

BUSY?!?!??

Yikes.... life is crazy... and I thought I was done being busy.... This weekend my friend Tracy asked if I could help her move Thursday... well... I work Thursday so I offered to help out Thursday afternoon for a bit before I left for work, and she states, "well that won't really work, we should be done by then." So, I offered to help her clean Friday morning. Then Cheryl from work calls and asks if I can do a shift exchange and work for her Friday afternoon. Hmmmm... well I told her I needed to check as I was going to help a friend move/clean. So I get off the phone with her, and I notice I have two voice mails. Hmmmm... it was Tom Rask.. "Hey, I am coming up this weekend and will be camping Friday and Saturday night if you want to stop in?" YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't had the chance to visit one of my favorite friends in more then 6 months!!!!!!!!!! Oh wait, shift exchange... yeah... On to the second voice mail, "Hey Nell, it is Nikki, I am coming up for the weekend of the fourth starting on July 1st, so if you want to get together on Sunday night that would work best for me, give me a call." I haven't seen Nikki in 6 years and she use to be my best friend... oh wait.... I have a wedding to go to that night..... a friend of mine had to get married last minute as her husband enlisted in National Guards and is leaving SOON. Great................. As I am listening to this my Mom states, "What are you doing tomorrow, I was hoping to go riding?" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH............... yikes priorities... Wedding first... clear Sunday, no visiting Nikki, but hopefully I can hook up with her later.... Thursday I would be off if I did the shift exchange and helping a friend move is more important that camping because I CAN visit Tom some day when I get a free weekend (huh, funny). I couldn't visit him on Saturday because I promised my brother (who I haven't hung out with all summer) and his buddy Scott I would show up at Scott's fourth of July party. So I called Cheryl back and took the shift exchange reluctantly.... then Thursday I help Tracy move from 1 pm to 1 am, yeah she wasn't done by afternoon (some people didn't show up that were suppose to help), Friday I worked... now on to Saturday... and I stil have to do laundry etc............ Help me!!! So next weekend maybe I will be free.... Huh... yeah right............. I have been saying that for months on end.... one of these days.... maybe?