Bros & Dads weekend

Bros & Dads weekend: What started as Pat's bachelor party in 2010 has become an annual tradition. Each March, the Ellestad guys, brothers-in-law and dads head up to Pearl Lake to watch basketball and hang out for the weekend. Last year (and most years) the lake is frozen, and they have played hockey, hit golf balls at targets on the ice, etc.

  

This year the activities were a bit more summer-focused in amongst the basketball games. There was still golf--aiming for the raft--and shooting (aiming at the cans sitting on a mini iceberg, being pushed further out into the lake below).

And, swimming. Yep, swimming. Pat and Ed jumped in (and quickly jumped back out, I heard!). Nothing like chilly Pearl Lake in March!

 The guys all together. If you're wondering what's on the flaming shovel, that would be a muskrat. Apparently it was swimming near the iceberg and became a new target. Also apparently, since I'm hearing this all second hand, there were not many crack shots among the group and pretty much everyone had a chance before it was finally hit by dad. I heard that the guys ate extremely well the entire weekend, but muskrat flambe was not on the menu.