The "Town" of Hatfield

This is the "town" we go to visit when we are at the cabin. I really should give some background on this place. It's a very unique place to visit. I think the town is actually incorporated, as it can be found on a map of Wisconsin, but the only mention of the population of the town is as follows:

I've been to small towns before, and it is hard to adjust being a "big city" girl. Small towns seem to be against some technologies, or understand how hard it is to make money using things like credit card readers. But Hatfield understands its place as a summer vacation place for families, so they don't have that issue. However, the population that stays there either year-round or for the entire summer is well known since it is such a small area. So in that way, it is a little like a small town.

We were there this past weekend, and had WONDERFUL lake weather on Friday afternoon when we got there. Spent a good few hours just laying on rafts while Trevor swam around in a very warm lake. We even went on a boat ride around 6:30-7:00 where the temperature was still in the high 80s and since it was a Friday night, not much traffic was out on the lake.

On occasion, Hatfield has an event. Usually it is a Flea Market. This weekend, it was the 100 year anniversary of the dam that was built onto the Black River and Arnold Creek spillways to create Lake Arbutus. Truthfully, I could have skipped the "festival", but seeing as how there isn't exactly many "festivals" in this town, it was probably better that we went. We were only there about an hour or so.And funny thing....about a week ago, Trevor was watching the food network and they were showing how to make Cotton Candy. He was very interested in making it, and of course I had to get him a bag of it to try. He said he liked it for about 2 minutes, and then wasn't really sure he liked the fact that it could be smooshed down to just about nothing. It was a very new texture for him. My cousin's daughter Ellie got to try some. Looks like she liked it too. Around an hour after we got to the festival, we had to go home as black clouds were threatening.

One final image I want to leave you with....I got a T-shirt that commemorated this wonderful event. On the front of the shirt is the button we wore to enter the festival, and the back is a nice little quip about the event.