Perfect North with a Perfect Group of Friends

For ten years now we have been getting together with the same three families a half dozen times a year to drink wine and talk about life. We call it our wine club, though we don't feel any wiser about wine than we did ten years. But we certainly have made some good friends. We kicked off 2020 by heading out of town for an overnight trip to the mountainous wilds of southern Indiana. There is a place called Perfect North and it was calling our names for some high quality tubing. Despite the fact that our chosen day was in the 40s and rainy, we had high expectations and decided to make the most of it.

After riding a moving walkway up the hill, we decided to get a group photo before the fun began. When we first started getting together Sarah was pregnant with Reese and the oldest three kids were still in elementary school. Now the oldest are juniors in high school and Reese is in third grade. Time sure does fly.

You want to know what else flies? These five people on tubes interconnected to maximize their velocity and overall thrill. It was a lot of fun and you could definitely build up some speed despite the conditions. 

Unfortunately, if you went solo and weighed less than 50 pounds you needed a little more effort to get to the finish line. Poor Reese came to a stop well before the landing pad and did her best to run to get out of the way of the next crew heading down the hill. After a couple of hours we headed back to the hotel to change clothes, get warm, and settle in for a fun night.

We definitely came prepared for the evening. Our room connected to the Abrahams' room, so we had some space to maneuver. Sarah was going to singlehandedly make sure no one went hungry by putting more than 90 Swedish meatballs in the crockpot in our room. Our group of 16 divided up nicely into four teams for an epic game of Telestrations, and it is somewhat surprising that no one else in the hotel called in a complaint to the front desk about us. This is just a great group we are lucky to have as friends. We can't wait to make more memories with all of them.