mini-vacation - smile muscles tired

We live on a lake where all the weekenders bring out their boats and drive crazy. We've watched various ski boats go by for years. Finally today, a Saturday, I took everyone out for the afternoon in our new old boat. Just in time for the speedometer to die (no biggie, I didn't trust it!) First daughter 13 in the tippy tube. She did fine at 2400 rpm. Then wife, who couldn't stay on the thing, but seemed to like getting wet. Then my turn for first time. Wife drove, making her nervous. WOW. This boat is soooo big and the wake is substantial. I can't wait until she's confident enough to let me ski, which I haven't done for 14 years! Will be cool to pop the wake. Finally enough speed for 1 ski in confidence. I HAVE to find a free tower somewhere!! Then the little fellow (7) rode for 3 miles. Grinning. Went into a quiet cove, anchored (another first for this boat) and swam. Really odd to go on such a nice mini-vacation. We could see our house most of the trip, but that doesn't make much difference!

And there were gobs of boats out. Mostly very well behaved. Much better than it used to be. One badly handled 30 ft sailboat. One "what are they going to do now????" pontoon boat. But otherwise quite reasonable behavior. A nice surprise.

We have enough gas to go out again tomorrow.

Visitors welcome, 608.2 on the Tennessee river, left bank, "Miss Demeanor" on whips!

Steve: Sounds great! We are gonna leave for our place on Norris on June 30th. Can't wait to get there. No worry about alligators In Tennessee! Stay paticient with the wife. I did and now mine mrs. jbear is my best driver. Great way to spend a day with the wife and kids, huh?

john

Good luck! We are never to old and feeble to enjoy ourselves. I'm 55 and still foot a little, ride my slalom, my wakeboard,and talk about how good I used to be. No more jumping or kite flying tho. Had to make a little concession to age.

john