Apple River!

We got back from a weekend at Apple River yesterday afternoon. We had so much fun! It was Brian and Val Wilkens, My friend Christie from Mitchell and Mike and I. We left for Apple River Friday at noon and it was a 5 to 6 hour drive and is on the Wisconsin border. We got there around 6 o'clock, set up camp and grilled some brats. We stayed up around the campfire and and had a few drinks. We had people from other sites come visit and the whole grounds were one big party! The next morning we were waken at 5 am with firecrackers and rap music. Needless to say I wasn't too impressed! The weather started out over cast with the odd sprinkle.

We decided that if we were going to get wet we may as well do it on the river so we made a beer run and headed to pick our tubes and hit the water. The tubing lasted about 3 hours per trip. There were tubers everywhere. Each group had there tubes tied together. There were some pretty big groups. They sure knew how to do it, they had water proof stereos and had music going. We bounced around from group to group and partied with a bunch of different people. After we went down the first time we stopped for a quick lunch at the car then headed down again. By this time it was about 2ish and there were a lot more people, and people were starting to feel the booze a little more by now. Things started to get a little more wild! Every so often there would be a ton of people stopped in the middle of the shallow part of the river having big parties. They had bongs, chocolate syrup and whipped cream going. I didn't get in on that action but it was interesting to sit back and watch!

For as many people that were there and as much alcohol that was consumed I couldn't believe how mellow and friendly everyone was! We did not witness one fight or argument! I found that to be pretty impressive.

All in all it was a great time and it was so fun to just hang out with good friends! We will definitely be going again next year. We plan to pick a date early enough so we can get a lot more people to go!!!! There is fun in numbers right!!! Will you be there???