Saturday

Kate and I slept in the basement of the cabin, they have a bunch of beds down there for visiting children and friends. The two dogs that came are there too and I quickly learned that after about 6AM if you give any indication of being awake they will jump on you to be let out. They quickly descended when I checked my watch at 6:45.

Once I was up to take the dogs out I was wide awake so I had no choice but to I curl up with a book. Pretty soon Kate's parents were up to so they showed me around the kitchen so I could get some breakfast. Around 8AM Kate's mom asked if I would like to go kayaking with her, I gladly accepted! The Novich family has some great kayaks, very light and easy to maneuver. We went paddled along the shoreline for about a mile and a half. A half mile out the land turns from residential area to forest and the forest has tons of bald Eagles living there during certain parts of the year. On Saturday we only saw a few though.

Later in the afternoon Kate took me out on the motor boat and taught me how to drive it. It's so easy; no pedals or lanes, and very little traffic! While we were out we checked the four crab pot Mr and Mrs Novich had put out earlier. I learned how to pull the pots and pull out the crabs. I already knew how to tell male from female, so I was ahead of the curve :). I think we pulled up about ten crabs but only four were keepers.

Once back at the cabin Mrs. Novich taught me how to pick crab (how to pull the meat out of the shell after the crab has been killed and boiled). Because I had helped with the catching and because the Novichs kill the crab by quickly chopping it in half (instead of boiling it alive) I decided to have some crab with lunch. Bad idea. It was really tasty while I was eating it, but I had the worst stomach ache of my life for the rest of the afternoon and most of the evening. A few hours after lunch I puked up most of lunch. That helped the ache a little but it was mostly too late at that point, my stomach had already decided to throw a fit.

For dinner I made some excellent pasta, a fancier version of our traditional family olives and noodles (for me and my vegetarian-ness, the rest of the family adds sausage to theirs). It was olives and noodles and garlic, onion, mushroom, and feta cheese.

At night the sky was GORGEOUS! Tons of stars! Across the water is an Indian reservation, and for a while somebody was setting of some giant fireworks :). Around 9 PM the family set up this outdoor theatre screen and a projector and we watched Secret Window. It's a Johnny Depp suspense movie, it was interesting.