Water skiing wonderful

We have been going to the lake every weekend this summer, sometimes even multiple times per weekend. It is wonderful to spend a day relaxing on the boat with the sunshine, water and good friends. We don't get much outdoor time living downtown. We don't have a lawn or patio...just the weekend respite of the lake. This picture is Matt skiing and doing his "rooster tails". I think I have grown accustomed to seeing Matt zoom back and forth behind the boat while he's skiing. Our friends, however, are usually impressed. :) He is really good! Matt just got a vintage wooden ski, which may just encourage him to learn a few new tricks!



And this is me skiing, not quite as gracefully, but enjoying myself nonetheless. :)



This is our friend James on the tube. At this time, we were at a small, secluded part of the lake because it was the only place calm enough to tube. Usually, you want rougher water for tubing, but the waves on the main part of the lake were way too high for our tiny boat.



And this is Courtney, James' wife, just before she flew out to the side and was flung from the tube.



And here I am holding on for dear life. Don't I look like Lisa here? Go figure.

Every weekend when we go to the lake, Matt is hoping and praying for calm, glassy waters. Once in a while we find an area for pure water skiing perfection. Most of the time, however, the lake surface is at least moderately rough because it is almost always windy here. This amount of wind wouldn't normally be problematic, but we finally realized we are used to lakes that actually have trees surrounding them. You may notice in some of the pictures, the "trees" around this lake are more like tall bushes, and don't offer much protection from the wind. The solution? We're thinking maybe one day we'll buy a small home on a Michigan lake and open a marina/restaurant. Matt could spend his days repairing boats. I could sell delicious organic dishes. Sounds like a good plan to me.

Oh, one more thing. The Fourth of July was a beautiful one here. There aren't any restrictions on fireworks around here so everyone has the big beautiful kind that go way up in the air (you know, the ones that are completely illegal in MI). We pulled the boat out of the lake around 8:30 on Friday, parked near the boat launch, and watched for a couple hours as regular Joes fired beautiful colors into the air all around us and over the moonlit water. It was gorgeous!! This is certainly one thing Texas does right.