Saturday July 7th, 2007 the temperature in Bakersfield was expected to reach a not-so-comfortable high of 103 (according to the paper) although, my car it was a few degrees hotter than that!
Regardless, we decided to beat the heat and get up by 6:30 in the morning and pack up the "Golden Shower" (our ancient, but tough yellow and gold boat that has a custom fitted tower that Wayne built and welded himself, complete with speakers and just last summer Amy used her a artistic abilities to hand paint the back
end...proving that our boat is just as good, if not better than all the
hyped-up name-brand boats)! We were on the water by 8 am and off again
a little after 12 o-clock. Had we stayed much longer we'd have all been completely sun burned...as it was we all came home pretty pink! We had pretty good water for the first hour or so, but the lake was
packed with people by 10 in the morning (thanks to the residual 4th of July camping crowd)...luckily, most of the wakeboarding and skiing had happened by then and we'd decided to move on to tubing...if you can't beat the waves join-em I suppose! Anyways, this was the first time Amy wakeboarded and she did really
well! She was able to pop up almost every time and it only took her few tries to stay up...now the toughest part...learning to maneuver the board. Wayne of-course
was still the highest jumper in the buch, even though his ankle surgery was just a few months ago! Laurah is getting much better at not only jumping the wake but landing on the other side too...now she just needs to work on keeping the rope down so it doesn't block her face in every photo! All in all it was a good day at the lake...no boat trouble or catastrophes!
Regardless, we decided to beat the heat and get up by 6:30 in the morning and pack up the "Golden Shower" (our ancient, but tough yellow and gold boat that has a custom fitted tower that Wayne built and welded himself, complete with speakers and just last summer Amy used her a artistic abilities to hand paint the back 
end...proving that our boat is just as good, if not better than all the 
hyped-up name-brand boats)! We were on the water by 8 am and off again 
a little after 12 o-clock. Had we stayed much longer we'd have all been completely sun burned...as it was we all came home pretty pink! We had pretty good water for the first hour or so, but the lake was 
packed with people by 10 in the morning (thanks to the residual 4th of July camping crowd)...luckily, most of the wakeboarding and skiing had happened by then and we'd decided to move on to tubing...if you can't beat the waves join-em I suppose! Anyways, this was the first time Amy wakeboarded and she did really 
well! She was able to pop up almost every time and it only took her few tries to stay up...now the toughest part...learning to maneuver the board. Wayne of-course
was still the highest jumper in the buch, even though his ankle surgery was just a few months ago! Laurah is getting much better at not only jumping the wake but landing on the other side too...now she just needs to work on keeping the rope down so it doesn't block her face in every photo! All in all it was a good day at the lake...no boat trouble or catastrophes!
5 comments:
I like the pic of Wayne flying. Very nice... Where are the pictures of you kickin butt and takin names on the board? No one filmed for you? :(
Yeah...I know, but it was the first time I took my digital camera on the boat cause I wanted to see how good it could do in the way of stabalizing a shot and how much it could zoom in...but if anything were to happen to it I just didn't want anyone else to be held responsible. If I broke it, dropped it or got it wet I'd be crazy mad but if that happened when someone else was using it they'd have the guilt factor mixed in and that was just not fair. But I added more pics of me with Mindi's baby if that makes you feel better!
It does, strangely enough! Thanks
DUDE! CRAZY TREES at the bottom of your blog. No place to comment. I almost missed them - since i frequent the sight. I don't make habits of "re-reading" things I read. Why didn't you put them at the top?
I put them down at the bottom because...rather than post them up as a blog, my page layout allows me to add elements at the bottom and until recently I couldn't decide what I wanted to put down there...then I remembered your dandilions (spelling?) and I decided to add my favorite nature item...trees!
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