Visiting Friends & Ice Fishing in Albany

Last weekend we ventured out to Albany to visit our friend John and his dog Roxy. We love going out there cause John lives right on a lake and it's so beautiful. Yukon loves "car rides" too and he loves to go visit Roxy, "his girlfriend" We always have a blast when we stay with John and he always shows us such a wonderful time. We did a lot of laughing, wine drinking and playing the game "Sequence" I love that game! We also came out to Albany to try out Ice Fishing on the lake John lives on. It's so nice to have a lake right out your backyard and you don't have to drive anywhere. The boys are getting their gear ready for ice fishing. I was so nervous cause I looked at the temperature right before we went outside to fish and it read ZERO degrees! OMG, we're nuts for going out there!

Yukon..."The watch dog" LOL, yeah right!

We weren't having any luck catching fish :( so Roxy decided to take a break

A flag on one of the tip-up's finally went off! It's the first fish of the day!!! Even the dogs are going to check it out!!

Nate's pullin in the big one...LOL!

It was a small Northern Pike... for some reason that is all that Nate has been catching lately! Guess they like him.....

Since we weren't catching many fish out on the ice, I went into the hut to try my luck on some smaller fish. I was using my new "hot pink" fishing pole that my awesome husband got me for Christmas. I just love that it matches my jacket!

It's kind of hard to see, but on the ice there is a leaf that was blowing around. Yukon was running after it on the ice, which was hard for him cause there was no snow. Our friend John was calling it the "scooby doo" ha ha...I was watching him do this for like a half an hour. It doesn't take much to amuse me!

He's getting closer......

Yukon finally got the leaf!!! He is getting a nice belly rub from his Daddy!
He is just too funny... he carried that leaf with him all over the ice!!

After fishing for a few hours in the freezing cold, we went back inside for dinner. Our friends Mike and Toni came over for dinner too. They had a little baby boy named Andrew in December. He is so teeny tiny and so adorable. We had music playing and he was nodding his little head and doing the Jersey Shore "Fist Pump" LOL!!

Yukon was checking out little baby Andrew. It's so cute to see how inquisitive he is with a baby. Little Andrew's eyes got so big when Yukon got close to him...he was probably thinking, "Whoa, this dog's HUGE"

Our friends Mike and John could not get this bottle of wine open, the cork was stuck. The two of them tried to pull the cork out together, it just wasn't budging. They resulted to pushing the cork into the bottle. I will say it was terrific wine, it was worth all the hard work. I was laughing so hard watching these two guys trying to open the bottle!



Roxy in Yukon's bed....look at her little paws..too cute!

After ice fishing in zero degree weather, good food and lots of laughs it was time to go to bed. Yukon was exhausted & "stole" Roxy's new bed! We always have so much fun going to Albany to visit our friends John and Roxy. Thanks again for the awesome time!!