Oscodapalooza 07'

Thursday evening we were on the road earlier than planned and started our journey back to Michigan at 7:30pm. Adam drove first and handed over the keys to me around 2:00am in Ohio. I drove through Ohio and some of Michigan until around 6:00am after Adam had gotten enough sleep to take over the reigns again. We were all so excited to get there that the drive seemed to fly by and when we arrived around 7:30am none of us seemed incredibly tired. Adam passed out for a couple hours while the rest of us spent some time catching up with friends we hadn't seen in a while.
We spent much of the day Friday on the beach, in the water, and lounging around the cabins. We made a quick trip to the grocery store to grab miscelaneous items for dinner and stopped at a Taco Bell/KFC for lunch. We had a pot luck dinner and capped the night with Flippy Cup and Smores by the fire.
On Saturday morning we had canoe reservations for 10:00am. We arrived slightly late and decided to take the 2 hour trip instead of the 4 hour trip. Apparently we made the right decision. About 15 minutes into our trip down river, Adam and Mark tipped their canoe. While Manore stayed with the waterlogged canoe, Adam and all their belongings went floating away. Between the 4 other canoes we were able to zig-zag our way thru the water and grab all of their floating belongings. Adam ended losing a flip flop but made his way over to the river bank with Manore to tip their canoe over and get back inside. After about 4 hours we made it to what seemed to be the ending point, however, it wasn't back at the Canoe Livery we had started at. We saw the van that we took dropping others off. We realized that although we had switched to the 2 hour trip, they hadn't informed the driver of the bus that, as he had dropped us off at the 4 hour point. He was nice enough to load all of our canoes back onto the trailer and take us back to the starting point.
That afternoon I took the best nap of the weekend and woke up in time for dinner. We ordered G's pizza (a northern Michigan favorite) and gobbled up 12 pizzas between the 21 of us. Skippy made Jungle Juice and after it was all gone we went back to the keg and more Flippy Cup.

Sunday morning came too quickly and the drive back seemed far longer than the drive there. We stopped at Tony's in Birch Run to consume a massive lunch before continuing on our drive. For dinner we stopped at McDonald's and Sarah ended up waiting over 20 minutes for her chicken nugget happy meal. After cursing out the Mickey-D employee for giving her Happy Meal to the little girl BEHIND her in line, we were again on our way. We made it back to Denville around 11:30pm, and we were home and in bed by 12:30am.
All in all it was a great weekend and it felt great to be surrounded by some of my closest friends, some traveling just as far as we did. I don't realize how much I miss my friends back home until I spend a great weekend with them and have to leave. I'm lucky to have such a great group of friends and cannot wait until next year!