happyour

Last weekend, my brother and I went to Gregory Beach to visit the cottage we lived in as kids, Happyour. My dad grew up in that same cottage, one of a string of family-owned and operated cottages that are still owned by that same family, happy to say! Each cottage was given a name by Catherine, the daughter of the owners when she was a child. The same name signs are still on the front and back of every cottage: Sameyet, Chirup, Happyhere, Catherine M., Bayview, Idlewild…the list goes on and then there is our favorite – Happyour.

The path that leads down to the lake is the exact same – railroad ties kind of stick out here and there as makeshift steps. We used to spend hours making “rivers” pouring buckets of water down those steps and that hill.

Pretty sure this view is the same one my grandparents would have seen looking up from the lake. I love that about these cottages, so many great memories!