Winter Sports

Today I went water skiing for the first time in my life!  Steph and Shaynee had a tough day at work, so afterwards they decided to take the boat out on the lake.  They picked me up, then we met  Sandy and Gray at the lake with the boat.  We went out on Lake Eidon which has more water this year than it has had in quite a while, so quite a few trees are underwater. 

Underwater Trees... poor guys

I thought it was unbelievably beautiful out there.  Shaynee got on the water first and showed us how to water ski.  Apparently you had to start with your knees to your chest, and your skis sticking out of the water a small distance apart… and we should never cross the skis.  Then, as the boat speeds up, the water pulls your skis under you and with strait arms your pull yourself up… it sounded easy and looked easy when Shaynee did it.  After her turn, I got to give it a go.  In my first attempt, my legs were a bit wide so I did a bit of bum skiing before I attempted to stand up and promptly fell.  After  few more tries, I was up and I (perhaps stupidly) stayed up for a while and rode in and out of the wake.  It was really really really fun!  It was quite like skiing on snow, I had to bend my knees and balance the same way as on the snow, but it hurt a lot less to fall.  Falling on a hot day was actually fun!

Steph took a turn after me and I think the skis were a bit big on her.  She did quite well and had some splendid falls, but also had a ton of fun and got up on the skis.  After all of us kids had a go on water skis, Sandy and Gray took a turn on the fun raft like thing, then we found a place to pull the boat over and we grilled sausages for dinner.  We were ravenous and the food was amazing.