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Okay, to start off I'll describe the setting. We went to a nice little indian reservation on the French River called Wajashk. There are 8 little yellow cabins along the river and each cabin has there own dock and fireplace. Behind the cabins, there's a dirt road and behind that are the woods. Me, my family, and my best friend kim villella stayed in cabin 6. We go there every year.
The first week, before my cousin Bobby Bires (14) got there, a bunch of guys from about 20 to 25 were staying in cabin 4. Every night they would invite tons more guys over, get drunk, and sing on top their lungs! Now that's what i call entertainment! Me and kim would open our bedroom window and listen to them. It was really funny! But the bad part is they kept my gerbil (weezer) up all night and she was going crazy trying to chew through her cage. Anyways, after those guys left, Bobby and his family took over that cabin.
The fishing wasn't bad this year. We got plenty small mouth bass, a few walleye(sp), and a few pike (but we don't keep them). Whenever we'd catch a fish my dog (mike) would bark at it! It was so cute!! Here's a picture of our boat.
Besides fish, there were tons of other interesting animals there. The first day Bobby got there, me and kim were chased by a rabid bat. We knew it had rabies cuz it was out in the middle of the day and it was trying to attack us. Talk about excitement!!! I had a minnow net in my hands though so i kept it off of us with that. After trying to bite my dog and failing, it came after us again so i put the net up and it clung onto it and tried to bite through it. Then i pinned it to the ground and Bobby killed it.
There's a lot of other cool animals there too. Like the three baby turtles we caught (fun to watch eat), the frogs and toads, garder snakes, chipmunks, squirrels, beavers, humming birds, sea gulls, and otters.
There's lots to do there. Once we went through the woods along the river and found a clear spot to fish..... and i managed to catch the same tree twice in 5 minutes!!! Woohoo!!! What an accomplishment!! We usually played badmitten and fished in the mornings, had lunch on rocks in the woods, then went swimming (had to force kim in the water), rafting, tubing, skiing (i didn't' though), water sledding, and frog/snake/turtle catching. In the nights we had camp fires till 1 in the morning. We'd pretend we were drunk and pretty much make fools out of ourselves, which is always fun. :) Me and Bob had a lot of fun scaring Kim too. She scares very easily! Bobby's fun to freak out. I'd stare at him without blinking and then slowly start to walk toward him with no expression on my face and he'd get up and run away! He's not as easily scared as kim though.
One day, we were fishing off the dock and my littlest sister melanie (10) threw her fishing rod in the water trying to cast! Luckily it was pretty shallow so we could see it and we fished it out.
And once me, bobby, and kim went on this huge round raft thing called 'my holiday island' and we rowed over to this really shallow part of the river where you couldn't' get a boat through. It was kinda freaky cuz it was gonna storm that day so it was sorta dark and there were dead trees that fell in the water. Plus the seaweed was really high and seaweed freaks me out cuz it grabs your feet and its hard to get out. But the really weird part was when we saw this glowing neon green log in the water. We touched it with an ore and the ore went straight through. It was kinda neat though. We have no idea what it was. My parents yelled at us though cuz we went out too far or something.
The only bad things we did were getting
thrown out of a restroom, almost losing
our boat, made fun of people, tortured fish, and fight.... a lot.
But no big deal. Anyway, I'm tired of typing
and you're probably tired of reading so i'll shut up now.
this is me and kim fishing :)
(I'm on the left)