Our Last Boat Trip for the Summer

Well I know its been a while since I blogged. But have been really busy doing lots of fun things. We made our final boating outing for the summer. It was a lot of fun in the sun. We took our friends Milie, John, Michael and Alex with us to Lake Martinez. It started as an adventure before we ever got there. Keith and John left in the morning and took the boat and Milie and I brought the kids over after I got off work. The lake is about 3 1/2 hours from were we live in San Diego. Well in the state of California if you are towing something you can't go over 55. Well we all know Keith can't do 55 in anything. So he started the trip by getting pulled over. He calls me when the cop is standing there asking me where his registration to his truck is. I got the tags renewed when we had the fires here last year, and I made that trip up to Oregon. Well I guess I never put it in the truck. So he had the old on but not the new one. Luckily he had a cool cop because he let him go with no ticket (70 in a 55) and no ticket for no registration. Which would have equaled out to be around a 450 dollar ticket. Wow we got lucky. So needless to say I tried to do the speed limit on the way over because I didn't want to get a ticket. So that is how our trip started. Then we got there and it was late, so we just hung out for the night out side in the peace and quiet.
The next day we go out on the lake and the adults get to go on the wake boards but then the wind picks up so we decided to go out on the river. We go down and get Milie some new sunglasses and some ice cream and head to the cliffs. There is a little lake that has some cliffs you can jump off. The tallest one is about 40 feet and one that is about 10 feet. Well the kids jump off the the 10 foot cliff and the guys decided they were going to go up to the big one. Well John doesn't really like to jump off high things. But from the boat it doesn't look bad until you get up there. Keith had jumped and dove off this cliff in the past so he was coaching john through were he wanted to stand and how he wanted to jump. Needless to say Milie and I were safely in the boat taking pictures and video of this cause we new it was going to be good. So Keith jumps off to show John were he wanted to go from so we waited for John and wanted some more for John. It ended up taking him about 20 min to finally jump and when he did he didn't really jump he walked off so on his way down his feet came up and he ended up landing on his butt and back. As soon as we found out he was o.k. we decided at that point to laugh at him. He was braver than me cause I still haven't jumped off it. After all that we decided to go back to the cabin and hang out for lunch. We didn't end up going back out on the lake that day. We took the kids to the swimming area and let them play for a while.
The next day we go out on the lake and its the kids turn. Well Bree has been doing really good on her Wake board so we were trying to teach her how to jump the wake a little bit. We told her today is the day the water was perfect and she was really excited. So she gets up and gets outside the wake, is having fun then decided to cut back into the wake like a pro. She hit the wake and it shot her up in the air, well at that point she had no idea what to do so she decided to superman it. She let go of the rope and ended up face planting really hard. She hit the water so hard we could all hear it in the boat with the music on. So we get back around to her and she is crying. I get her in the boat and she has a bloody nose and her arms are all red. So we just talk to her for a couple min and tell her how good she did. Then Michael and Alex decided they wanted to go. So they tried to get up. Michael is almost there but when he gets up he gets so excited he lets go of the rope. And Alex isn't so fond of the wake board she prefers the knee board. Then Bree decides to go again. Which at this point I am very proud of her cause if I hit the water that hard there would be no way I would be getting back on that thing. So she gets back up to prove to herself that she is fine. (my brave little girl) It is colder this day so none of the adults want to get in the water at all. So we just headed out on the river for a while. It started raining while we were out there. I can tell you its not much fun to be in a boat doing 30 plus miles and hour down the river and have the rain pelt you in the head. While we were going down the river our cabana on the boat decided to break so back to the store to get a piece to fix it. Then we went to the cliffs again and hung out there for a while. It was really windy so we put the flag up on the wake boards like always and the girls were jumping off the cliff. We had to end up moving the boat because the wind was dragging us. So we ended up losing the flag in the water. So back to the store again to get a new flag. So we went back to the cabin and hung out for the night there. We played cards and had a great time.
Sunday the day we leave the cabin. We always go out and spend a couple hours on the lake before we go home. So Keith, Bree, Alex and I are the only ones that want to go. Milie, John and Michael decided to stay behind this day. Well we go out and play for a while and the girls get up on the knee board and are pulling 360's and going in and out of the wake like pro's. They love the knee board. Keith and I got up on our wake boards and had fun with them for a little bit. Well we have to be checked out by 12 so we decided to head in and pack the truck and car so we can leave. On our way home that day we had planed on going by the range to go shooting. Milie had never been so we went by there. When we got there Bree was crying that her ear hurt. I thought she might have an ear infection from being in the water and wind. So we lay ed a bed out for her in the boat and she slept while we shoot the guns. We were there for a couple hours and then headed home. Milie and John are huge Sonic fans (the restaurant) so they asked if we could go by there on the way home. Well we had no idea were it was. We knew what road that is all so we found it and when we got there we noticed that Bree had ruptured her ear drum. At that point it started feeling better so we ate dinner and headed home. Well it is already around 4:30 at this point and have a 3 1/2 hour drive home and over the mountain. I new it was going to be a long night for me. I new I had to take Bree to the emergency room as soon as we got home so that she could get on something to help her ear. So we made it home spent a couple hours at the hospital and Finlay got home around midnight. So that was the last summer adventure for us. Bree is out of the water for at least 8 weeks and the weather is going to start getting colder here. We all know I don't like to be cold so the boat has now been put up for the summer. Now its time to get the quads out and start riding. I will post pictures as soon as I can My computer is full and I can't down load my camera.