Fishing!

Last weekend, Nick's parents, his sister and her boyfriend and Nick and I all took a little (LOOOOOOONG) drive up to Lake of the Woods for some ice fishing!!! We stayed at Ballard's Resort in Baudette, MN.  They set up our fish house, drilled our holes, provided us with bait and brought us to and from the house.  All we had to do was bring our poles!  We had a 3 bedroom cabin complete with a kitchen and a living room.  I wasn't sure what to expect, but I actually had fun!  I wish the fishing would have been a little better, but you couldn't beat the company!

Our theme for the weekend...

We drove in these rigs 9 miles out on the lake!  Ashley and I sooo excited for fishing!

 Nick caught the first fish of the trip! A walleye

An hour or so later, Nick also caught the biggest fish of the weekend - a 25" walleye 

 

Even I caught a walleye - he was little, but he sure tasted good! 

The view outside our fish house - nothing but snow and fish houses

The crew in our fish house - it was cozy but all 6 of us were in one house.  We got there at about 8:30 am and they picked us up between 4 and 4:30 pm.  It got to be a long day, but the hours passed quickly - we had beer, sandwiches and LOTS of laughs!

Nick "the fish-slayer" Frank - another monster - 23" walleye.

Ashley got to drive the bombadier!

 Fishy, Fishy in the lake, come and bite on my bait!

Our fish house - and our potty.  Hey -we're girls - we needed some place to go, so they brought us a pail with a garbage bag inside a house.  It worked! 

Dan, Ashley, Nick and me - on the way back from our first day of fishing 

Pretty sunrise from our cabin front door

 Fishing - Day 2.  Dan showed us how it was done on Saturday!!

Dan's walleye - 24" 

Sheri and Ashley - "fishing is so fun!" 

The crew - not the best picture - but it's the only one I had of all of us! 

 And when the fishing was done - it was time to have some fun!!!  One of the neighboring resorts had a live band so we headed over there to celebrate our catches!

Much, much later in the night - how do you know this?? Nick is on the dance floor!  That would NEVER  happen early in the night!

It was a really fun trip and a great vacation.  Although next time we decided we are going to find someone to fly us there in a plane - 7 hours in a car is just too long!