Day 4 of Vacation

We woke to the smell of coffee, bacon and Kris making Belgian waffles!...YUM-O

No plans for the day really. We had our breakfast and then we decided to ride the Dau road on our bikes. This was going to be a bit scary as Dawn and Christi have mountain bike with knobbies, Kris and I have mountain bikes with inverted treads and Ronnie and Nanci were on road / hybrid bikes with skinny tires. We were worried about Ronnie and Nanci riding on this road but they were troopers and decided to go for it. What a great ride it was. The gravel had big stones, no so fun, and also was a bit wet so it was soft in places. This road was 2 miles long of hills, gravel and a canopy of trees. It was a great ride that we were happy to do a round trip on. We saw some deer when we were on the hard surface. One little girl, I named her Jane, get it Jane Doe...bad humor sorry, anyway Jane was doing the deer in the headlights look. I stopped and talked to her and Kono rode up and snapped all sorts of pics of her. Jane was so pretty and just standing there looking like she wanted her picture taken. We all made it back to the cabin 7.2 mile later. No record speed. No record distance, just a fun ride with friends and seeing nature.

This is Dau Road. Pretty much the whole road was covered with trees like this!

Four of us broke out the boccie set. It was a good friendly game but Christi and I lost...DANG IT! The other two of our six were sitting in the screen porch reading and had no interest in taking on the winners. I guess they were intimidated...or something like that.

Our supper was to be a wonderful event. Kono and Ronnie brought steaks, wine and with our grocery store stop we added salad and bread to the mix. The cabin only has a charcoal grill and it has been quite some time since I cooked with briquettes but we got it done. The food was great. We opted for a bonfire out by the lake. The evening breeze was cool and strong so the fire burned great but our backsides got quite cold!

Our fire pit area during the day!

Nothing like looking up at the stars in the country, away from city lights. They are amazing!

Side note: learned a lot about bats. The cabin has had some bats in the past but nothing bad, only one in the screened porch this year but Kris's uncle has a ZERO bat tolerance so one was tooooo many for him! Kris's aunt and uncle had a guy come and seal up any of the cracks that the little browns might be able to enter the cabin through. It seems he was to have this done before we got to the cabin so as not to scare us. No need to worry we are not afraid of them in fact while I was waiting for the charcoal to turn its wonderful gray color the "Batman" came to seal more cracks. He was a nice guy. The name of his company is "Fly by Night" which we thought was funny. Anyway he told us all about bats. Pretty interesting. We even found one little brown roosting under the cabin over hang. This guy was quite the guys. He went to school for gunsmithing and was not going to school for small engine repair and does this bat thing part time. I guess that it typical for that area of WI as it is really a poor area so people diversify to meet peoples needs. We noticed this to be true with the little convenience store down the road. Not only is it a bait, beer, liquor, produce, meds, gas, food store but you can also pick up some landscape pavers when we pick up you gallon of milk!