The Cottage

When we were children The Cottage was such a magical place. We all still see it that way today, some 25 years later. We come from a big family and this is where we would spend many a weekend with all our cousins, our best friends. There was a big Oak tree off the back heading down the hill towards the lake. We loved this tree, in our young minds, we would even kiss the tree and say good-bye before leaving to head back to reality. The nights were spent around the fire and us kids would wake up early before the adults and try and get the fire going again, this was a game to us. There are still stories about the UFOs we saw while sitting by the fire at night. There was this big rock down by the water, and it was the size of an elephant. But for some reason, it had a big crack in the middle you had to jump over to fish off of the other side. We were always afraid we would fall in the cracks and it would swallow us up. So many memories. All of us cousins made a pact, we will all go back there one day, we have to.