The Water skiing/Lake blog

I've notices a similarity between all the blogs I've been reading this summer.... everyone has been water skiing. Well, now here comes our Water skiing/Lake blog: This weekend Madelyn and I hit Lake Travis with my family for some boating and water skiing. Most people wake up at 5am to get smooth water for skiing... but this weekend were able to find amazing water in the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday. The secret? Go boating at the same time as Austin City Limits festival and a UT Football home game. There was nobody on the lake and we had a great time with amazing water.

Madelyn and I were both unable to get up on 1 ski... after many, many, failed attempts. We were provided the following explanations:

1. The rented ski boat didn't have a powerful enough motor

2. The rope was too short

3. The water skis that came with the boat were in terrible condition

We both agree that 2 and 3 are the best excuses. Number 1 wasn't a good excuse because it implies that we are too heavy for a boat to pull us out of the water. Not only do we have to feel bad about not being able to ski on one ski, but now we have to feel guilty about the Taco Bell we had.

Not only could I not get up on 1 ski, but I couldn't even get up on the knee board. My step brother Jacob, 12 years old, popped right up, he was doing 360's and hitting the wake. I couldn't even get my knees on the board. I just lay there, getting dragged behind the boat, and having a ton of water go up my nose.... oh, and we were in front of a restaurant, so I was proving people with quite the show.

Unfortunately for us the wonderful smooth water we found was next to Austin's nude beach ( I won't mention the name so that people Google searching it will find our blog)..... fortunately we were too far to see any details, but you could definitely tell either everyone was wearing a flesh colored swimming suit or there were a whole lot of naked people on the shore. For those who are thinking "Nude beach? Hey... why is that a bad thing!?", just remember that a) Most are dudes b) most of them are old. For the SLC people, remember the Steiner locker rooms? Yeah... like that.

Luckily we still had fun skiing on two skis, the water was perfect and the weather was awesome. We even found a little place to throw down the anchor and swim for a while. It was a lot of fun. Some things you'll notice in the pictures.... the lake was really low and the giant structure behind Madelyn is NOT a hotel... it's a house. wow.

The rest of the weekend was spent watching football, doing some landscaping in our front yard (I'll add pictures later), eating birthday cake with Tobi, and installing a ceiling fan... BY MYSELF! Yeah.... me, large light fixtures, spinning blades, a lot of pieces and hanging something from the ceiling... It's a scary combination.