The usual...

Last Saturday (August 15th) we invited my parents and Audrey up for the day, or night if they chose to stay. Melissa and Kell came up with them. We had every intention of renting a boat from one of the marina's, however, at the last minute our friends Jason and Kim insisted that we borrow their pontoon for the day.

We went out on the water around 11:30am or so, it was cloudy and a bit windy, but we didn't mind it kept it from getting too hot. Since it was windy, we found a spot to anchor on the lake between Long Bay and Whitehorn where we would be protected from the wind. We swam a little, and tubed some.

Todd and Mom

Nic, me, Kell and Audrey

Kell looks like he's comptemplating placing the rope around Audrey's neck!

Audrey, Kell and Todd swimming

Melissa, Mom and me

Our captain, Nic
My back side and Mom
Kell is so brave.

Melissa and Kell

Audrey and Todd tubing. I love Audrey's face.

Melissa and Kell tubing....slowly.

Audrey and Melissa


Kell and mom, I hate that this pic is so blurry because it's so cute. Kell loves his Granny.

Audrey tubing solo.


Kell taking his usual afternoon nap on the lake.

Todd tubing solo, he was a little braver than Audrey.

Uh oh....

....and he crashes!

Not too long after we were done tubing we decided we better get some gas. Since Paradise Marina is the only gas station on the lake that had 100% pure gas we headed over there. Of course it rained on us on the way there. By the time we got fuel and were heading back the rain had stopped and it looked like sunny skies were fast approaching.

When we got back around to Long Bay the sun was completely out. We anchored in a shallow area, however it was so windy that even with 3 anchors the boat was still dragging them. Unfortunately my camera battery died and I forgot the cigarette lighter charger in my car, so we didn't get any photos of the nicer part of the day.

We went back to our travel trailer around 5 or so and grilled some steaks, corn and potatoes for dinner. It was a great time. I can't wait until Nic and I have our own boat so we can invite our families up more often and not have to worry about borrowing someone's boat. In the meantime we're very fortunate to have such great friends.