Pre-Cottage 2009

We head to Long Point, Lake Erie today after work. It is an annual thing now, us visiting Chris' cottage and it is a holiday I start counting down to as soon as we get out of the driveway after the trip. Every year, we pack up the car (though the first year we rented a vehicle) and make the 8 hour drive after everyone is done work. We land in Paris and then head to the cottage the next day. Previously, we have stayed until the holiday Monday and then made the drive back without Chris as she stays longer with her family, but this year we will be staying an extra two glorious days as per Jerrica's suggestion.
Another sort of tradition is the addition of one person each year. The first year it was just Dave and I and then the second year we brought Jerrica with us. This year, we are bringing Justin with us. We will be picking him up along the way and he will spend the 5 days at the cottage with us, it's very exciting.
Today we will be leaving work early unlike previous years, and picking everyone up then heading out of town, hopefully before the traffic picks up, it is a long weekend though so it is pretty unlikely that we will miss the traffic jams altogether.