Wakeboarding weekend!

We decided to go with Steve and Miggie to the lake this weekend with them on their boat. It was way fun. There were 4 of us, just enough to fit in the boat and wakeboard. I brought the wakeboard and we found a calm area on the lake where another kid was learning to wakeboard and Josh yelled to me that I have pressure now I need to get up the first time! It was my first time out this summer. I surprised myself and totally got up the first time and stayed up! I guess I underestimated myself. It’s much like riding bike.. you know how to get up and you just do it. Staying up can get complicated with waves, cross waves, wake and the boat turning. That’s my challenge at this point. But I’m totally proud of myself and have way more confidence now for next time.

Unfortunately when we were riding out to find calm waters, Steve’s boat’s bimini shade (I think it’s called) cracked off the track and whacked me in my boney shoulder. It was one of those things where you like stub your toe on something or bang your knee on something really hard.. there’s an instance of no feeling then the pounding pain comes… just like that. I wasn’t gonna wakeboard after that but I iced my shoulder and like Steve said “be a man!” and I went out and did it anyway for a few times. There’s a bump on my left soulder now and it’s surprisingly only red no black and blue mark… yet anyway.

It was a really nice relaxing trip aside from that. I love that. Just sitting and chatting with friends at the lake can be just as much fun without the wakeboarding, etc. The sound of the water is so calming. It was really cool because there were not many boats on the water and we slept in an extra hour leaving the house at 6am instead of 5am and we still got in before the jetski limit.

The best part was probably that we shared our cove area with some really awesome people. They had 4 dogs. Two golden retrievers - Pepper and Mocha, a shnauzer - Thistle and a little black dog that I forget his name. Mocha reminded me of Kelsey back home. They were so much fun running into the water like crazy as soon as they got a little bit dry they were back in the water and they loved their boat too.

Made Josh and I really ponder this whole boat thing… I would prefer a boat to the seados. But I know Josh loves the seados and won’t get rid of them for a boat.. he’d just add a boat to his collection of toys. We decided if we can ever find storage for free on our own property or for much cheaper than we pay now… that storage fee is equivalent to a boat payment.