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My favorite childhood memory would have to be my summers going up to the family cottage. We went up to our family cottage every Sunday during the summer. The cottage is on Lake Deneveu. It is a little private lake that is south of Fond Du Lac Wisconsin. It is only a mile long by half a mile wide. It is only a 25 minute drive from my house. It is shared by all my aunts and uncles from my dad side of the family. It’s a good time because I get to see all my cousins which is really nice for me because I’m an only child. My grandparents are the ones that live there. It is nice to get to see them and catch up with them.
Everyone gets up there around 11 o’ clock. It is neat because everyone brings something to contribute to for lunch. We all sit around in the living room and catch up on what is going on with everyone in there life. It is mainly the adults talking about all the gossip that has happen in town that week. The little kids will be in other living room watch a TV show on Disney. The older kids will be listening to what the adults are talking about, and having side conversation about that they did that week, or how their summer is going. It is great to have everyone together in one place. Usually in the background there will be a TV on with a baseball game or a golf game going on. It would not be a day at the lake without some conversation in detail about some hockey matter. I say that because out of my 20 cousins 15 of play hockey. That is where is can get a little heated. It is all in good fun though; no one takes it to heart.
After lunch it is time to go down to lake. Once down there that is when the good times begin. The little kids will go out to the sand bar and play out there with one of the dad selected to go out there; which is usually Uncle Kenny, because he is still the biggest kid out of any of us. The other adults will sit on the pontoon or on land with grandpa and grandma and talk with them. For the kids you can find them in the sand bar or on the boat tubing, wakeboarding, or knee boarding. I love to go wakeboarding, and that is just me and my older cousin Carl. Carl is the one that drive the boat when we go tubing or wakeboarding, because it’s his boat he got for high school graduation gift. You can find some of the little ones up on shore making waterfalls in the sand pit right by our pier. I think that is a tradition, because every grandchild has had a phase of making waterfalls in the sand pit.
I love going to the cottage on Sundays; because it just gives me that family value that is good to have. I mean how many families can say that they get six brothers and sisters together with their kids once a week and have a good time. There are many reason why this is my favorite childhood memory. Here are just a couple, because if I told you all of them just from the lake I would have a novel to tell you. The cottage is one of my favorite places to go. Now that I’m older I understand that this is something a lot of families don’t do. So I hope when I have kids that my cousins and I still keep this tradition going.