There are six families in our group, and almost everybody could make it - we missed you, Nicole!, and one baby got left at home, which brought our lake total up to 33: 22 children and 11 adults. Honestly, we could not have done this two years ago, because our kids are just collectively aging into this enough for the balance to tip more towards fun than stress-inducing. (though you are constantly head counting in the water with that many kids!)
The Heads graciously coordinated the boat situation to get us set up with three total boats and all ready to go bright and early Saturday morning, and we got on the water with our very excited (and always hungry) crews!
The boat John and I were piloting turned out to be an extremely popular place, because kids could climb on top and jump off. This provided hours of fun.
(my new favorite picture of John)
We did tubing and wake-boarding which proved so fun for so many kids! (I was never on the ski boat, so I don't have many pictures of that!)
There was a LOT of floating in the water on inflatables and noodles. We adults definitely specialized in this area.
We also had a lovely lunch break with more food than six families could ever need, which is a great problem to have.
And kids went from boat to boat, and there was swimming and fun fun fun.
Towards the end of the day, we were letting all the kids pile onto the tube or the rope and be dragged in very slow circles around our cove. And they loved it.
We moms took our own hilarious slow spin on the tube. Getting situated provided more laughter than I've had in a while.
We wore our kids plum out, which is the sign of any good lake day.
And several of us ended the night with Mexican food, table for 22.
All in all, it was a spectacular experience, and I'm super grateful to do life (and the lake!) with these people.
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