The Quarry, babymoon?

So I don’t really care for the term “babymoon” but the term seems to be getting used quite a bit and it makes sense – so we did our “babymoon” at The Quarry. The concept is that the couple about to have their baby takes one last weekend away, alone, and enjoys their last hurrah as a child free couple PRIOR to baby arrival. I just don’t quite think the term is a perfect pairing with the event if you consider a honeymoon happens AFTER the wedding. But I digress…

The wife and I did the babymoon thing this last weekend. Surprisingly, it was her decision to go back up north and have a quiet camping weekend. We weren’t planning on doing anything fancy, but when she said she wanted to go north, I wasn’t going to say no to a chance to camp. At 32.5 weeks pregnant, I was pretty surprised by her request. Who am I to say no to a preggo?

We had a great time up there as usual. There was a short rain storm as we set up camp and another one over the first night, and we had to break out the inflatable mattress on night two as the built in mattress wasn’t quite doing the trick for her. But other than that everything was flawless.

Guess what? I made photos! Surprised? No? I didn’t think so. Here are a few of the highlights from the weekend. Not surprisingly, most of the images ended up being of Sarah.

Her focus on the weekend was sitting in the sun, napping in the sun, and swimming in the sun. Mission accomplished.

Dog found ways to stay cool too.

This is Sarah one year ago. She discovered the big flat rocks are a great place for a rest. Let’s compare to this year….

A few seconds later….

On the last morning we awoke to strange atmospheric pressure and a weather front out over the lake that left for some very weird light (I’m no meteorologist, I just thought saying ‘atmospheric pressure’ made me sound intelligent). This below photo was taken at 9:08 am. It totally looked like that sail boat was flying. The light was strange, man! The second image is a blown-up detail of the sail boat in the image. It was pretty trippy.

A little later that morning, things got heavy in the air and a fog rolled in. It came on strong and was pretty blinding. I’m glad I wasn’t out on the water. The fog came in and blocked out the point across our little bay. Sarah took this photo of me the day before at noon. Use this photo as a perspective as to what the view normally looks like during the day:

And here is what happened with the fog. The first photo is 11:00 am

11:02am

11:04am

11:07am. Damn near gone.

Overall it was a great weekend. It may have been our last weekend as a quiet couple up there, but the whole reason we’ve created this place is to share it with our family as it grows. We’re both super excited to share this place with our baby and make the Quarry an integral part of baby’s life.

Can’t wait to have the little one with us sitting at this fire!