Ghosts of Weekend Past - Wet and a little Crazy

I believe that this July 4th weekend could have been summed up as the best, most perfect quintessential summer weekend.  It basically encompassed everything I love about summer.

Saturday Morning the steppie and I took the kayaks out on a section of the Rock river that we haven't paddled before.  Here are some of the highlights...

 

Just in case you got tired early on someone created a little rest stop.

 

 

Honestly I am amazed by the items that we see along the sides of the rivers we explore.  The steppie also counted about 8 tires on Saturday.

 

Then we ran across our first...oh hell how are we going to get around that monstrosity

 

 

Thankfully a few sharp little turns and it was easy as pie.



 

Probably the favorite discovery of the day was the tadpoles

 

I foresee a jar being added to her kayak pack list.

 

We also encountered a few portages along the way.  The first one being not so bad...

The second we had to pull the kayaks out of the water to get around.

 

The afternoon found us back on the water...as we took the boat out, of course, and finally the jet ski.

Ready set...let's look at a whole bunch of pictures of us just being lazy at the sandbar.

Dinner found us having basically an "all-american bbq" with hamburgers, hot dogs, watermelon, corn, and apple pie you know.  Plus we had a little soda sampling experiment going on.  Sorry forgot the pictures...but I can say the bacon nor the peanut butter jelly soda were nothing to write home about. We finished the night with a few small fireworks.

 



 

 

 Sunday forecast 85 and sunny aka Let's Boat again Bitches.  And our fun, crazy factor  was off the chart.  Little Bro tried out water skiing.  Thinking that maybe a little liquid encouragement had something to do with that.  We tried diligently to get the steppie to give it a go, but no luck.

 

And Sunday afternoon after a long lazy crazy fun time at the sand bar found us stopping at the rope swing.  Seriously it is some dangerous awesome fun.

  Oh and I got this next picture at the perfect time.

 

Wish there was more side stories to tell, but it really was just some pure summer fun. Now as the week starts we are sitting here tallying the injuries and working thru the aches and pains that were covered up by mass amounts of fun we were having.  And this year we are definitely hitting that rope swing again.