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.
First time on the lake this summer!
We went to the lake Saturday and it was a lot of fun. Being the first time out, I was shocked the seado’s didn’t break nor did Steve’s boat. I was contemplating wakeboarding… but it was the first time out and I don’t think my body wasn’t yet used to that much intense activity. So I toned it down and just rode the tube for a bit and rode the seado and boat. Went with Josh, Lauren, Keith, Steve, Miggie and their kids. We had delicious lunch as always, Steve and Miggie brought a ton of good food like carne asada, tostadas, sandwiches, salsas, yum!
I posted some photos here
I can’t wait until next time! 
Castaic Lake Boating!
We went boating with Josh’s friend Esteban from work and his wife and his brother in law to Castaic Lake on Saturday. It was a lot of fun. I finally got to see how big Castaic Lake really is. We brought our tube and that was a lot of fun as well. Things are so much easier on a boat, you don’t have to worry about how to get the cooler to the beach, and limiting what you bring to what fits in a seado.
There’s a small beach area at the back of Castaic that is surrounded by high mountains that we hung out at. Steve’s wife made some awesome chicken tostadas and we had some fresh fruit. Nothing tastes better than fresh fruit when you’re in a lake or at the beach.. not sure why, but it always holds true. Josh got crazy air off the tube repeatedly until he called it quits same with Steve’s wife.. she got almost 4 feet out of the water one time. She’s brave.
Later that night we saw Chris Porter from Last Comic Standing perform at the Hollywood Improv with Amritz and Sarah. He’s hilarious. Josh and I thought he should have won his season of Last Comic Standing.
We went to the 8pm show… so by 10pm when we were clearing out I saw Matt from this seasons’s Last Comic Standing! Matt is this really funny comedian from the UK, he cracked me up on the show. Last week’s show he was voted off 
It looked like he was going to perform at the 10pm show.
Jetskiing!
Jetskiing was super fun. I was nervous because on Thursday the weather channel said there was a chance of thunderstorms on Saturday. But on Friday it changed to partly cloudy. On Saturday it was actually sunny blue skies though!
Tarrah and Lawreen came this time (and Tarrah had a wedding to go to the night before! She’s a trooper). It was lots of fun. I tried to teach them how to wakeboard/wakeskate but it’s very tough. Reminded me of my first time. I probably looked just like that. I couldn’t manage to get up long enough to stand on the wake skate so I decided to try the wakeboard because I haven’t tried it in 2 summers. The wakeboard seemed way easier somehow. I got up and stayed up until the rope got some slack (jetski pull is not consistent like a prop boat). So I think I went in 20 ft increments or so.
Josh and Ryan are crazy on the tube and driving the jetski with the tube. They like to go 30-35mph and swerving to fling the tube out all over the place. I, on the contrary prefer a 20-25mph tube ride, but can’t have one with them driving I gotta have Tarrah or Lawreen drive the jetski next time. At one point they were going so fast with me on the tube that Ryan fell off the back of the jetski! See?! way too fast/swervy.
The highlight was definitely when Ryan flew off the tube and his water shoe went flinging off into the air. It was like a mini explosion tube went up, Ryan went up and shoe went up and all fell. Totally reminded me of Dane Cook’s joke- “The guy goes flying into the air, his shoes flew off. When you get hit by a car, sometimes your shoes will fly off.”
The tube popped again. I guess we didn’t have a fun time unless it pops heh.We gotta repair it again when we get home.
Good times. I’m very sore today but it was worth it
now playing: The Blow - True Affection
Jetskiing!!
Went jetskiing with our new friends this past weekend Ryan and Teresa. Ryan has a Kawasaki stand up jetski. It was the first time out for the War Chariot tube! It’s sooo awesome. Way cooler than our past tubes.. it’s very difficult to flip it, but we managed to flip it 3 times
When we were hanging out beachside we saw 2 boats smack into each other (sides grazed each other). One boat was just idling and another came flying by at like 50mph at least.. and bounced off it. I dunno how you hit a boat that’s standing still.. but they managed to. Didn’t look like too much damage though. Probably dents and cosmetic mostly.
Then we saw a patrol boat clearing out the cove next to us and they said helicopters will be landing to get water. Then we smelled fire and saw smoke behind us and then the ash came down. We got all excited to watch the helicopter come to get water and after like 10 minutes it was like 5 helicopters.. constantly getting water from the lake. We decide to go tubing and then got this photo and realized the fire is at Pyramid lake in the brush behind us!!
We went tubing for a bit more and then went back to our camp area and they were evacuating because the fire was getting close. We moved to a small beach area with an awesome shelter and then we started wakeboarding and wakeskating. I still didn’t manage an up for a good amount of time on the wake skate but Teresa was awesome on the wakeboard even with the choppy helicopter waters.
More photos in the photo gallery … link on right!
jetskis, sand rails, and bikes oh my!
It was 95 today in Valencia! So jetski season is here. This weekend Josh and i are going to try to take out the jetskis, his jetski still needs a new battery.. it’s coming in the mail hopefully before the weekend. The lake is still cold - 66 or 68, but wetsuits fix that.
Then the next weekend Josh’s parents will be visiting for the week. There’s so much to do when summer is here! Tarrah’s having a bonfire at the beach next week Friday too, sounds like fun. I love a camp fire and toasting marshmallows!
now playing: Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage
