Scott's Birthday

I took PTO this past Friday to spend the day with Scott celebrating his 40th birthday.

(is he cute or what?)

While there was cake, there were no presents to open. This was Scott's birthday present that he got earlier in the month, which was a little too big to wrap.

The weather Friday could not have been more perfect.  It was an absolutely beautiful day in southern Wisconsin.  Sunny, not too hot, low humidity.  Perfect.  We had dinner reservations at 7 that evening at The Tornado Room  (link).  During the day, we decided to go out on the boat.  Instead of hitting one of our usual Madison area lakes, we decided we would try something new:  Geneva Lake.

Geneva Lake is about an hour from where we live.  We had been to the town of Lake Geneva (I think the lake is Geneva Lake but the town is Lake Geneva--different word order, whatever), but never out on the lake itself.  It's just a little too big and too much traffic for our old fishing boat.  With the new boat, we thought we could handle it.  Lake Geneva/Geneva Lake is a popular tourist spot and, from what I'm told, has a pretty regular crowd of folks from Chicago who come up to the lake to spend weekends.

Scott had looked on line and plotted out a route to a public boat launch.  As we approached the lake, we actually saw a different boat launch than the one Scott found on line.  This launch was huge.  There were probably at least 100 trucks with boat trailers parked at this place, and that's not an exaggeration.  We paid the $10.25 launch fee (a little pricey) and off we went.

It was so lovely out on the lake.  It's quite a bit deeper than the lakes in Madison so the water was much, much cleaner.  The scenery was magnificent.

We tooled around the perimeter of the lake and looked at the houses.  Scott fished a little.  I took a nap.  It was a quiet, relaxing, peaceful day.  There was only one problem.

We weren't on Geneva Lake.

It took us a little while to figure that out.  Here is where we actually were:

Apparently just before you get to Geneva Lake, there's Delavan Lake.  Who knew?

Even though we didn't end up where we thought we would, we still enjoyed the day.  We liked Delavan Lake well enough that we will go back there again.

We did ultimately make it to Geneva Lake the next day.  More about that later.