Weekend at the Lake

This weekend Danny and I headed to the lake with the puppy dog to visit Danny's parents, Doug and Kathy.  Kathy grew up visiting her grandparents at the lake and 30 years later, her and Doug decided to visit family members that still live at the lake last year. They loved it and decided to look into buying a lake house so they could have somewhere to visit in the summer. They bought the house last October so this is our first time spending a summer at the lake! We have so much fun up at the lake and this weekend was no different!

View from my kayak of the lake.

We started with a night of grilling out when we arrived Friday. Kathy got ingredients to make our own kabobs! They were delicious!

Kabobs and pasta salad.

Weight Watcher Peach cobbler. 

We had a busy Saturday. We started off with heading to one of my favorite places called, Campbell Pottery Store. They feature a lot of handmade pieces and creative art. We found a beautiful vase to add to our dining room/kitchen area. After we shopped, we headed to the art gallery where they were having the Lily Art Show. It featured local artists pieces that resembled Lilies. All the art was beautiful and it was neat since Kathy's cousin, Kathy Travis is among those local artists. She received an honorable mention for her beautiful watercolor.

Campbell Pottery Store

Campbell Pottery Store

Danny with our new vase.

Energy-Frequency-Vibration by Kathryn E. Travis

After the art show, we explored some of the little shops around town and got something to eat.

Posing in front of the city sign like tourists.

Danny and me at lunch.

After walking around town, we picked up the dogs and took them for a walk around the lake. Danny's parent's dog, Oscar is a black lab and loves to go swimming. We took them to the boat ramp to let Oscar swim and surprisingly enough Yogi got in too!! Our dog has been deathly afraid of any type of water (shower, pool, rain, etc.) so this was a mini miracle in my eyes and gave me hope for the future.

Danny walking Yogi to the lake.

Yogi watching Oscar swim in the lake.

Yogi in the lake!

After the puppy swim, we headed to dinner at the Sunset Grill which is an amazing restaurant that overlooks the lake. They had live music too so it was a nice and relaxing environment!

The view from dinner at Sunset Grill.

Kathy and Doug at dinner.

Once we returned home, I convinced Danny and Doug to go kayaking with me. Danny, being an avid blog reader, mentioned that we should go "cabrewing" since he knows it's on my 30 Before 30 list! What a great hubby! So we got in our kayaks with our beer (our kayaks even had a cup holder, it was perfect!) and set out camera in hand to explore the lake. This was special to me because I got to capture and share the amazing views that I see every time I go out on the lake. Below are some of the pictures I captured and even includes an amazing photo that my father-in-law took of me and Danny watching the sunset!

Danny in the kayak.

CABREWING!

Danny out on the lake.

Me on the lake.

Danny cabrewing.

Me and Danny.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Wine and dine night

Saturday was a great day filled with wining and dining.  I had noticed a groupon a month ago for a Cleveland wine tasting at an art gallary featuring some art from local artists, so I talked my friends into going and we decided to make a night out of it!

We started with dinner at a resturant called Stir Crazy, which is a Chinese resturant that allows you to combine ingredients to make your own stir fry.  They have a lot of options for vegetarians and as we learned last night they have a lot of gluten free options as well since my friend Kara cannot have gluten.  After dinner, the husbands and wives split off and we went shopping while the guys went to a bar to have another drink.  We met up 30 minutes later to head to the wine and art show.

The girls at Stir Crazy.

Our really good drink at dinner called Passion Paradise.

 After shopping and grabbing drinks, we headed to the wine tasting and art show.  It was a little different than expected, but we still had a good time.  The wine was very good and there were a lot of interesting pieces for sale.  We even found a possible addition to Danny's man cave and there was even a $26,000 price tag on one of the paintings! GASP!

Me and Danny.

                        

We saw a lot of great things that we liked.  Our friends, Chad and Kara saw this piece and Kara loved it, but Chad was not willing to budge on it.

The girls.

Chad and Kara.

Ashleigh and Ryan.

After the wine tasting and art show, we headed back to our house and went for a midnight swim.  It was so much fun hanging out with our friends and we always have a good time when we're all together!