Getting Ready to Celebrate the 4th of July!!!

Ryan and I are definitely getting excited about having a nice long weekend to sit back and relax a bit! We are REALLY fortunate that we have a "not so quiet spot" to go to upstate on Lake Ontario... Ryan's family has been vacationing and weekending their for over 50yrs and has truly made themselves "known" to all that reside.... with wild antics and drunken stupors they have carved out a term "goin to the cottage" that EVERYONE who is associated with ANY offspring of the Desens clan knows EXACTLY what that means..... Here are a few ways "goin to the cottage" could be defined:

1. traveling up route 104 to route 3 into a tiny town called Adams just south of Henderson Harbor on beautiful beach of Lake Ontario.
2. staying at any one of the family cottages or for a little more tranquility renting a site at one of the local campgrounds.
3. Gathering all of your friends and packing as little clothes as possible and as much alcohol and food as your car and wallet will allow AND consuming ALL of it before heading back "home".
4. Going to "Old Mans"
5. Bondfires on the beach
6. Meeting the "family" (all 60 of them) for a quiet intimate holiday weekend at "the cottage".
7. Drunken Vollyball
8. Broken bones and FREQUENT trips to Watertown Urgent Care
9. Your personal beach chair set up at the beach that will be respected and NOT used REGARDLESS of if there are people standing and your out on the boat all day.
10. Twizzlers and munchies on the beach
11. Getting ice cream at Molly's Trolly
12. Wondering if Cleo's (or whatever it was called) disaster was truly an "Accident".
13. Kids underage sneaking beer
14. Sand in your car, your bags, your beds, and a million other places it doesn't belong.
15. Leaving the sand in all of those places as long as possible cus it reminds you of "goin to the cottage".
16. Fireworks & 4-wheelers at Uncle Mikes.
17. Begging someone for a telephone or a toilet!!
18. Getting sunburned because you forgot drinking for 6hrs in the sun does that to you.

The list could go on and on, but I will keep some of the secrets secret and invite you to experience "goin to the cottage" for yourself!!