Another year gone by and the time has come for another annual get-together of all the Gonzalez family brothers and their families. Last year we roughed it by camping in the hills of central Pennsylvannia – this year we decide to go extreme roughing it by renting a family-sized cabin in the mountains of West Virginia :) It was tough I tell ya.
Needless to say, we were very well comfortable and there was room for all 14 of us to sleep and play throughout the huge cabin. Most of the family arrived on Thurs afternoon-evening but Rene & Rose could get in till later Friday due to work. But after everyone staked out their place to squat – we began the weekend’s activities of eating, drinking, playing and catching up on the year’s events.
Friday we ate a hearty breakfast and then took a family hike from the cabin down to the nearby fishing ponds. Going down was much much easier than climbing back up. Everyone was on the lookout for the local area bears and wildlife but alas, no luck this year. We came back, played some horseshoes and ate lunch and settled in playing relaxing while the teens played video games down in the media basement. We corralled some wood nearby and then chatted the night away by the campfire drinking Jr’s Happy Juice concoction.
We all woke up on Saturday to the smell of a good Dominican breakfast that was followed by an army-sized pot of Sancocho that Rose cooked up for lunch that could’ve fed half the mountainside. That is going to have to be a recurring meal from here on out it was that good. We relaxed on the hammocks and the hottub was getting good use most the day while Jr. and the boys went off adventuring looking for the local swimming spots by the river. More horseshoes, dominoes, foosball and other fun was the order of the rest of the day while we got a roaring campfire going for that night.
All in all it was a blast and all the kids and family had a great time. The drive was long but well worth it and the cabin was pretty much perfect and had everything we needed. We will definitely be back again and can’t wait till next summer where we’ll meet again for our annual gathering.
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