Weekend Getaway to Lutsen

Over President's day weekend, five of us ventured up to Lutsen for a get-away and some skiing. Betsy, Katelyn, Stephanie and Corey were the skiers. Alyssa was coming along for some relaxing time in our A-Mazing townhouse. We got a 2 night, 2 day skiing package for around $200 a person. We stayed in Grand Marais, right by the water in a very nice, newer townhouse complex called Cobblestone Cove. We had 2 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 fireplaces and a loft. Plenty of room with beautiful views of Lake Superior. We would highly recommend this place to anyone looking for a place to stay in Grand Marais.

We arrived in Grand Marais around 5pm Friday night (about 4.5 hour drive from Twin Cities). You could tell we were all ready to relax and not think about life and work because instead of finding dinner somewhere we mixed ourselves a cocktail and headed to the hot tub!! Having too much fun, we realized it was 8pm and needed to eat, so we called up the famous Sven & Ole's Pizza and ordered ourselves a few local treats including a wild rice pizza.

Saturday we got up bright and early and headed to Lutsen for some skiing. We skied from 10 until closing at 4pm. It was bright and sunny all day with great snow conditions in the morning.



Katelyn & Betsy



Betsy & Stephanie on the Gondola

After a long day, we drove the 20 miles back to the townhouse to find Alyssa making us lasagna for dinner! :-) Some more hot-tubing and a new drink discovered made for a fun relaxing evening. Some snow came down and we were hopeful that we would wake up to some fresh powder the next morning.



New drink  - "The Marais"

1/2 c Orange Juice

1 c Pomegranate Vodka

1 c Malibu

1/4 c 7 up

Splash Pomegranate Juice



The Marais

Sunday we got up early, had breakfast, packed up all our stuff and headed back to Lutsen. Betsy's parents met us at the ski hill and Elana joined us for a day of skiing. We skied all day and left around 4pm, hoping to make it back before the snow in the Twin Cities got to bad. Of course that didn't happen, but we did make it home to Betsy's safely at about 9:30pm. That night the Twin Cities got 12-18 inches of snow. To bad it couldn't have snowed for us when we were skiing.

Betsy & Elana

View from Gondola ride

Quotes from the weekend:
"Apples are hard..."
"This shaker is bigger than my shaker"
"If you know him, you would know him!"
"How big is a large, like 16 inches?"
"I'm officially hard right there"
"His hand in my zipper"
"Did you know I have a smiley face button?"