Cabin Fever

The weekend of July 25th, Kramer, Josey, Bill, Brook, Jill and I headed up to Brook's cabin for the weekend. There is a reason we love going up there so much, it's awesome.
Bill, Kramer, Josey and I headed up early on Friday ahead of Brook and Jill- they were in Boston at a Red Sox/Yankees game. Bill borrowed his parent's car and picked Kramer and I up at her apartment Friday morning. The night before, I took the train to Jamaica and met Kramer at Silvercup Studios to grab the keys for her apartment from her. She works on Gossip Girl and wouldn't be off work until who knew when, 2/3/4am?, and I was sleeping over her place. I was talking with Sea on the walk over saying that I didn't care too much about touring the set but then when I got there and Kramer showed me around I was floored. It was so cool! And I don't even watch Gossip Girl!

I fell sleep around 1:30am and Kramer didn't walk in the door until a quarter to 4am. I let her in and we proceeded to make... let's just say some very special oil for some very special brownies that we wanted to make up at the cabin.
Kramer had 3 hours sleep under her belt, and me not too much more, when Bill and Josey arrived in the morning but the news that Josey had found a restaurants along from Diners, Drive-ins and Dives woke me up. I love that show! Hell yes wanted to make a detour to Manchester for The Arrow Diner! Upon arriving at the diner 5 hours later, we asked what Guy Fieri had on the show and proceeded to order everything he tasted. There's me having the meatloaf. As you may know, New Hampshire is the location of the first presidential primary and thus the state's big city is littered with lots of political imagery, like a big wall mural of past presidents on a brick wall downtown and little plaques on the seats at the diner stating who sat there. Hilary Clinton and I shared a seat.

The food was delicious and we decided to buy a whole pork pie and a few homemade twinkies to share with Brook and Jill for dinner the next night.
We arrived at the cabin by 6pm after hitting up the local grocery store for supplies, ie: beer, and proceeded to settle in and relax. I was quite proud of myself. I got the water pump going, filled the jugs and had the brownies baked and cooling before the sun set.
After a dinner of cheese and crackers and Josey's homemade pasta, we each had a brownie and played a hand of a Russian game Bill taught us called Durak. It's a little complicated but basically the loser is called a Durak, or fool.
Somewhere close to the end of Durak, the brownies kicked in. They ended up to be pretty potent and this began several hours of complete and utter silliness. I felt as if I weighed a ton and getting up from the table to get something was just about the hardest thing I have ever done. We couldn't concentrate on a game of poker and moved onto 'things Barney would never say' scrabble. There's Kramer's contribution to the board.
Long lense photography attempt above. Around 1am, Jill and Brook arrived to us all passed out. Sorry guys.
The next day, it was volleyball. Kramer, Jill and Josey all played varsity in high school and well Brook and Bill are just all around athletic. Guess who was the durak of this game? I played in a dress and heart sunglasses and was hit in the face twice by the ball.
Case in point, check Josey's athletic prowess.



Bill entitled this- 'Things that go 'bump' in the night. They are making it their holiday photo.
Brownie round two.
We all asked for there to be a thunder storm at night and mother nature obliged. Thankfully, the funnel cloud that was forming in the distance behind the cabin disappeared or we would have been in some serious trouble. Kramer took this in hopes of making it into the Silva-Braga cabin calendar.
We left late the next day after a few games of volleyball and a dip in the river. It ended up we had to take the train back to the city from Tarrytown and after some intense driving (read frightening as all hell) from Bill, arrived just in time to make the 11:12pm. And thus ended another awesome cabin weekend. Thanks Kramer for all the awesome pictures.