Lake Wawasee - Brady

I spent this Memorial Day weekend at Lake Wawasee, one of my all-time favorite places and next on my list of things I'll miss about Fort Wayne. The awesomeness of Lake Wawasee was especially apparent to me during this trip because the weekend was interrupted by an impromptu journey to the infield at the Indianapolis 500, one of the things I will miss LEAST about Indiana. Maybe you can get an idea of the heat, exhaustion, noise, and general disgustingness of the event by looking at this shot, from a couple of years ago:

Needless to say, I was happy happy happy to return to the lake on Sunday night after my 3rd year feeling like THAT.

Kevin and I both (separately, obviously) vacationed at Lake Wawasee as kids. When we were deciding where to get married it seemed like a logical choice. It's beautiful and fun, we have a history there, it was destination wedding-y without being inconvenient for most of our friends and family, and it was almost exactly halfway between my hometown and his (symbolic, huh?).

I'll obviously still visit the lake a lot even after moving to Chicago, but the close proximity to it over the last two years has been so nice.

Here are some pictures from the last few summers at the lake.

My mom and me on The Lillypad, the boat where Kevin and I had our rehearsal dinner. Also, the hotel where Kevin and I got married is in the background.

Kevin's parents' condo.

Reading/working on the porch. Probably my favorite thing to do there.

Kevin's dad, aka Swamp Monster, after a spill into the lake.

The view from Kevin's parents' porch. I could sit there all day. I take the comment from two pictures up back. Sitting here in the morning with a cup of coffee is my favorite thing to do at Lake Wawasee.