Lake Minocqua, WI……Nothing says Great American Roadtrip like a family vacation with the Blims! Living in Chelsea has made me a tad bit cautious of the phrase “water sports”, but the Blims assured me that water skiing, tubing, and kayaking were the only sports they had planned. Mama Blim had to stay back in Mt. Prospect but Papa Blim, Jeff, Chris, Erin, Chloe (the dog), Jason (Jeff’s childhood friend), and myself took Minocqua, WI by storm. We apologize for lack of posts the past couple of days but the internet does not agree with North Woods Wisconsin…..rightfully so.
Above you will see a sketch of the Lake house…...who actually sits and sketches out in nature? As I sat there sketching, I felt like Meredith Baxter…formerly known as Meredith Baxter-Birney…in a bad Lifetime Movie. The plotline could have been something along the lines of a divorcee who goes to her childhood lake house to rediscover her love for herself and get back to the hobbies she had stifled to appease her abusive husband that raped her in said house…and after her sketch is complete she goes into town and reconnects with her high school sweetheart…they fall in love over a Tom Collins at “The Thirsty Whale” and then after 10 years of a blissful marriage…he rapes and kills her. A Lifetime Original starring Patrick Duffy as husband number 1 and Michael Gross (from Family Ties) as husband number 2.
Perfect weather, Commandeering of boats, Bratwurst, Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail and Mosquitos create a recipe for relaxation and thus a vacation within a vacation. One major realization that came to fruition in Minocqua, WI was my personal loathing of all things associated with the act of being wet. I can sit on a boat and drink a Point Beer with the best of them, but water sports just aren’t for me…..the Chelsea or the Lake Minocqua kind. I did get some bonding time in with Chloe the dog…and joked that I would be taking her to a fat family in Staten Island to befriend Norbert.
Oh before I forget, several of our viewers have been upset about the lack of shout-outs headed their way. Of course I speak of my mother and sister so here is the shout-out. Mother, why didn’t your parents own a lake house in Minocqua, WI?…it’s a lovely town full of tradition and stereotypes associated with coming of age movies. I had to deal with the ridicule of not knowing how to water ski and drive a boat…things that the Blim boys and Jason had learned to do at age 3. They had to teach me about tubing and new hair growing on my body…..so the moral of the story is….let’s just rent a lakehouse because I’ve never realized more than the past few days that I am a city boy thru and thru. Oh and Maggie (my sister) …..how hilarious that I went to get something out of the glove compartment after traveling a couple thousand miles only to discover that you own a GPS…I probably should’ve asked about that important piece of information!
Star-gazing, water ski pyramids (don’t worry… there is a video), a bottle of Jack and just being AMERICAN are a great way to end your first week as the new face of the Discovery Channel. The worst way to end your week……tipping over one’s kayak and submerging one’s body into a Native American lake whilst listening to India.Arie on their trusted cellular phone device. I fear that my posts may become even more difficult and less frequent…unless….Uncle Ben’s rice performs a miracle and absorbs the moisture out of my technological life source.
Also, from here on out…….I’m going to be doing a series of mini-posts called Realizations. Many self-discoveries and cultural observations will make an incursion into the blog (Jason….I used the word). Stay Tuned!
-MIKE
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