A Day at the Lake

That sounds like the title of a children's book to me. LOL

Last Saturday, we were treated to a day at the lake with one of Jake's co-workers and his family. We live in an area with two lakes that are pretty easily assessable, and yet we almost never go. I think it is because we would rather go out and enjoy the lake from the boat and not from a swimming area (that may or may not be gross when we visit, yuk).

We kind of have a plan for trying to buy a boat in the next year or two, but we'll have to see how things pan out.

Anyway, we got to the lake around 1:30 or so. Donnie owns a ski boat while his son has a pontoon. I have always been partial to ski boats because that is what I grew up on, practically. Some of the best memories I have of my Dad from my youth include him behind the wheel of our boat wearing a backwards hat, sunglasses, no shirt, and the dorkiest lake shoes you can imagine.

The pontoon is much better for a family with kids, though. Mainly because they can take their life jackets off when the boat is stopped and they are gated inside the railing, so they'd have to put real effort into jumping/falling off the boat. Obviously, we hung out on the pontoon for most of the day.

Spencer was none too happy with our plans of a lake day. He didn't want to go. He was scared of the boat, scared of the water, scared of the wind and the clouds and the noise. I'm not convinced he was really scared; I think he just wanted to NOT get on the boat. Of course, when we "parked" the boat and swam, which was 99% of our day, he looked a lot like this:

(ie-as happy as a clam). The kid had a blast swimming and munching chips on the boat. And playing with Donnie's son, Robert (pictured here), who was either called "Robin" b/c Spence didn't hear his name right or Diesel, b/c, you know, everyone gets a train name. They grew grapes under the pontoon boat, which cracked us up.

Even Jack loved it. The life jacket was a bit too "up in his business," as I tend to say, for my taste, but he didn't seem to mind too much.


He also had this turtle floatie thing that he could sit in and we alternated between it and the life jacket. I took him in the water once with no flotation device (although I was sitting in a life jacket, so we had no trouble staying above water) and he kept drinking the lake water, which squiked me out, so he had to get back in the boat.

We didn't end up leaving until after 9 pm and, of course, the boys were beat down. So were Jake and I. But it was so worth it for the awesome time we had.