A Sunday of Biking & Boating

Wednesday night Randy replaced the faulty impeller on our boat - it finally cooled down a little outside when he did the job even. So Thursday after school Jaclyn and Stephanie went with us for an evening of boating fun. The water was so smooth so after we'd all taken turns skiing or wakeboarding, Randy agreed to cruise clear to the dam. It was so gorgeous - we were out till almost sundown. Unfortunately we all forgot our cameras, if you can believe that.

This morning we had to be at CA for the 10-mile Bike Race that started at 8 a.m. About 35 students participated, the smallest turnout in our ten years here I think. We snapped a few pictures that we'll share with kids who were in it.

Then we were home to get the boat and back to the church parking lot to pick up four of our students who are also our workers who enjoyed a couple hours on the boat with us this morning. We beat the Sunday crowds and enjoyed some nice water for skiing even. The girls enjoyed lots of tubing fun.

They even did some tube swapping back there, and tried all four of them sharing the two tubes for awhile. Julie was adding spice to the occasion with her screaming back there. She said when she drives their family's boat, she likes it when people scream behind the boat, so she didn't want to disappoint us.

Randy spun them around a few times, and we loved watching them hang on for dear life, or lose it a time or two.

It's great getting back on the boat again, after the five weeks it was out of commission while we got Ryan moved to Ohio, got started into our pre-school meetings, went to Nashville, and started school. There wasn't much time for Randy to do anything about the repair till a week ago really. It did scare us today when it wouldn't start for several tries - it's either solenoid trouble, a starter, or the ignition switch. Randy plans to delve into that later this week.