Red....that seems like a good color to type in when you're going to talk about HOT it's supposed to be this week in North Carolina. Whew! Are we ever fortunate that's it's the coming week and not the past week---we just returned from a camping trip and thankfully the weather wasn't unbearable. Of course we were prepared for anything and brought TONS OF DRINKS and ELECTRIC FANS! And this year we even got to bring a BOAT!!!!!! It is super fun to swim in the middle of the lake off your boat (life jackets on, of course). You're out there and you swim through pockets of bath water warm spots and then ice cold spots-----right next to each other.....go figure! It's like it didn't get stirred to just luke warm.
Our other boating experience this week was a trip up the POTOMAC RIVER to Washington, D.C. with my sister and her family. Now that was awesome!! Wide open and no one out there.....we got to go really fast and do random circles in the water. Plus we boated by all these really amazing place and sites!
We were riding next to my sister's boat-----reminded me of the boat pictures on the front of the boat magazines we get monthly (a gift from a friend). Funny thing though, every month the picture looks exactly the same. David & I have decided that we must not really be boat people or we'd know right off what kind of boat was on the cover each month.....instead all we notice are the beautiful people on the cover with wind blown hair and the blue water spraying up behind.
So we got our boat last year----around September 1 I think.....we had had a smaller 4 person bass boat that was adequate, but slow. We figured our kids were at the age to enjoy tubing and such, so we bought a bigger and a faster boat. I mean, how would we ever know if we really were a boating family if we didn't a boat. So our boat hold 6 and goes FAST! It's a Skeeter - which is a "Fish and Ski". So you can ski and tube and stuff from it, but it also converts to a bass boat with a platform seat at the front and a the back----it even has 2 live wells (for you non-fisher people, that's a place with water in it that you put your fish in after you catch them). AND it has a cooler and drink holders and all these nifty storage places to hold random things you might need like fishing poles, sunglasses, sunscreen, life jackets, rubber tubie things that you hang outside the boat when you're docking, rope, snacks, etc. AND it even has a CD player/radio so you can play your favorite tunes out on the water.
The trip was like Man vs Wild (have you seen that show on the Discovery channel??). It was so HOT......you stay much cooler on a boat when you're moving fast enough to blow your hair. We got down to even drinking the melted ice cooler water. We scrounged for every drop of food and candy we had on board. By the time we got back to the dock (which we had trouble finding in the dark), it was pitch black out. What a memorable trip!! So, that's how we passed Level One of boating! Are we a boating family yet?? I'm not sure. :)
I've taken the last 2 weeks off from running - trips to Atlanta, D.C. and the lake instead. I'll start up again soon. :)
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Wow! I love your boating story! Yes, you are FOR SURE a boating family! You have passed all the tests, the rescue test being the FINAL! That must have been quite a trip, towing another boat for 5 hours! Mark did a rescue like that on the Coquille River once, but it wasn't anywhere near 5 hours! That experience will give you all something to talk about for years and years to come! I was glad you had all the essentials on board! I *loved* the pictures, too! Thank you for sharing those! We have a spotlight that plugs into the outlet in the boat for those dark night emergencies, maybe one more thing you could put in your boat? I used it to spot that noisy (and ugly) beaver outside our cabin last week! We had returned one late night from a visit to my brother and I got sidetracked with the light, looking at everything at the lake in the dark...it was an adventure, it was even raining!
Hope you can stay cool this week! It's misting (is that a word) outside now. Cool here in Oregon... Just last night I threw out a big box of Fruit Loops... I realized we never eat that, and remembered you had bought it for your family when you visited over a year ago!
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