Long Point - Victoria Day Weekend

Chris invited 12 of her friends down to the cottage for the Victoria Day weekend. This is not unusual, we usually have a full house of young people for the first holiday weekend of the summer. However I think this was the largest number so far. There were 15 of us in total and only 4  had to sleep on mattresses on the floor in the basement.
Chris, being the event planner that she is, had set a menu and sent out a sign up list. As people began to arrive on Saturday the kitchen and the floor around the kitchen gradually filled with coolers and grocery bags. I couldn't believe we would really eat and drink that much. In actual fact the only thing that we had massively too much of, was lettuce.
We were able to seat everyone at two long tables pushed together although this meant we pretty well didn't have a living room as all that furniture had to be shoved together.

This was on Saturday evening as we ate Noah's homemade burgers.

The menus accommodated vegetarian, lactose intolerant, Kosher and a diet that was labelled in Christine's e-mail as "Kristen". This was at its most interesting at breakfast with some scrambled eggs made with egg whites, almond milk and onion, some with egg whites and cheese and some "regular" (with everything left over from the day before ,delicious). French toast was a challenge too (for the record, almond milk doesn't seem to cook the same as cows milk).

The "make your own sandwich/salad bar" for Sunday lunch.

The weather was amazing, allowing for a lot of outdoor activity:

Or should I say, inactivity.

On the list of items for the weekend was:"trashy magazines". Made for a sedate evening activity.
More sedate that the previous evening which involved cards and rum soaked gummi bears!

It was a great weekend: fun people, good food and drink, sunbathing, running on the beach, games, bocce, hammock lying, cards in the sun, kayaking etc etc. It was made even better for me because all the food was taken care of and everyone helped out in the food prep and clean up. Perhaps the best thing was catching up with Chris' wide circle of friends, current and applied for jobs, wedding and house plans, travel and of courses celebrating Christine's birthday (which actually occurs this Friday).