Fifteen Years.
Because sometimes you just want to do fun stuff.
Since the Stardust Drive In up in Chetek didn’t open this year (and we’re really hoping it comes back — but this is the usual death knell of a drive in), we haven’t been able to go to a drive in movie theater this year. We started going to drive ins for our second wedding anniversary way back in 2012, and it’s kind of a big thing for us. With Stardust a no-go, the closest drive in is the Big Sky in the Wisconsin Dells — but that’s a two hour drive, and not something we can easily go to and drive home in a night.
So we got a hotel room.
We actually got a room in Mauston (because it was only a 20 minute drive to the theater and way cheaper than a room in the Dells), and had a wonderful night out seeing the live action remake of How to Train Your Dragon. On Sunday morning, instead of driving straight home, we instead drove back to the Dells and met up with my brother David and his partner Mary for breakfast at Paul Bunyan’s. They suggested doing it a week ago when we saw each other on Father’s Day, and I was 100% on board immediately.
We used to go to the Paul Bunyan’s in Minocqua, but due to some family stuff with the owners and the pandemic, that location never re-opened after it was shut down in 2020. We had a wonderful time hanging out for a bit, and it’s just a fun, kitschy place to spend some time.
Honestly I feel so lucky to have spent these last fifteen years married to Crysta, and I look forward to the rest of our journey. We’re both so different than who we were when we first got married, but we’ve changed and grown together. I look forward to finding out who we become in another fifteen years.
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