Day 6 – Exploring the Lake and Town
Here’s the very short version of a very long day. It’s 11:47 pm as I write, and I just want to hit the highlights.
It was fun to head to the recreation center and work out in the exercise room, then get on the Internet and catch up on some e-mails. I needed to call Dr. Oakes to talk about a few things, so I used skype to call over the Internet and get caught up with him. I think some people walking by wondered why I was talking into my laptop, but oh well.
We had decided Thursday was the day to rent a pontoon boat and explore the lake. Turns out that there wasn’t much of a lake to explore. Crown Lake is only 650 acres, which makes it comparable in size to Long Branch Lake in Macon. It is a man-made lake, but is pretty. There are several nice homes built along the lake, but not really the million dollar homes like you might see at Lake of the Ozarks or Branson.
We rented a 28 foot pontoon boat with a 90 horsepower motor. With 11 people on the boat, that’s not exactly a lot of power. I felt like we had all the speed we needed to pull an inflatable raft behind, but it wouldn’t have worked for skiing. Since the lake was so small, it didn’t take long to go from one side to the other.
We spent a little while just getting a feel for the different parts of the lake, then the kids were ready to ride the raft. Adam and Talon started. After Mike and Colan fell off into the lake, Sandy got to ride with Anna. Their smiles showed how much fun it was.
I rode with Alex later.
He wanted to sing while we rode, so we did Jesus Loves Me and This Little Light of Mine. He had a blast on the thing and never seemed scared of the water at all.
After everyone had a chance to ride, we stopped to swim.
While the kids enjoyed the swimming, the ladies got out sandwiches and chips for lunch, which we ate on the boat.
We did a little more riding around and even got Sandy to show off her skiing skills on the raft.
Four hours on the boat went by pretty quickly, and then we were back to the condo for the afternoon. Everyone was pretty wiped out from the ride. I even took a nap, my second afternoon nap of the week!
For supper, I grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, getting them just a little too well done. I’m used to my George Foreman electric grill at home, and the charcoal was just a little hotter than what I could control.
After supper, we decided to try the mini-golf place. After being at some mini-golf places on vacation in the past that were eight or nine dollars each, we thought this place would be more reasonable. When we got there, the guy said it was free! What a deal! Some of the kids fooled around from hole to hole, but Mike, Ian, and I had a little competition, with Mike as the winner. One neat thing about the course was that each hole had a scaled replica of a building in town (a church, grocery store, restaurant, etc.). Eighteen holes basically covered the landmarks of the whole town.
The little kids and the ladies went to a town park to play on the playground while Adam, Ian, David, and Mike went to the Country club to play tennis. The court wasn’t as nice as the ones we have in Moberly, but the surroundings were pretty. It was on the top of a hill overlooking the golf course below. The Fincher men beat the Worstell men 5 points to 1.
We all got the kids to bed, then the Worstells brought frozen pizzas upstairs so we could have a little couple time. We played a neat game called Sequence, with Mike and Sandy beating Dezi and me two games to one.
It was a late night, but great fun.
Tomorrow: Winding down
It was fun to head to the recreation center and work out in the exercise room, then get on the Internet and catch up on some e-mails. I needed to call Dr. Oakes to talk about a few things, so I used skype to call over the Internet and get caught up with him. I think some people walking by wondered why I was talking into my laptop, but oh well.
We had decided Thursday was the day to rent a pontoon boat and explore the lake. Turns out that there wasn’t much of a lake to explore. Crown Lake is only 650 acres, which makes it comparable in size to Long Branch Lake in Macon. It is a man-made lake, but is pretty. There are several nice homes built along the lake, but not really the million dollar homes like you might see at Lake of the Ozarks or Branson.
We rented a 28 foot pontoon boat with a 90 horsepower motor. With 11 people on the boat, that’s not exactly a lot of power. I felt like we had all the speed we needed to pull an inflatable raft behind, but it wouldn’t have worked for skiing. Since the lake was so small, it didn’t take long to go from one side to the other.
We spent a little while just getting a feel for the different parts of the lake, then the kids were ready to ride the raft. Adam and Talon started. After Mike and Colan fell off into the lake, Sandy got to ride with Anna. Their smiles showed how much fun it was.
I rode with Alex later.
He wanted to sing while we rode, so we did Jesus Loves Me and This Little Light of Mine. He had a blast on the thing and never seemed scared of the water at all.
After everyone had a chance to ride, we stopped to swim.
While the kids enjoyed the swimming, the ladies got out sandwiches and chips for lunch, which we ate on the boat.
We did a little more riding around and even got Sandy to show off her skiing skills on the raft.
Four hours on the boat went by pretty quickly, and then we were back to the condo for the afternoon. Everyone was pretty wiped out from the ride. I even took a nap, my second afternoon nap of the week!
For supper, I grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, getting them just a little too well done. I’m used to my George Foreman electric grill at home, and the charcoal was just a little hotter than what I could control.
After supper, we decided to try the mini-golf place. After being at some mini-golf places on vacation in the past that were eight or nine dollars each, we thought this place would be more reasonable. When we got there, the guy said it was free! What a deal! Some of the kids fooled around from hole to hole, but Mike, Ian, and I had a little competition, with Mike as the winner. One neat thing about the course was that each hole had a scaled replica of a building in town (a church, grocery store, restaurant, etc.). Eighteen holes basically covered the landmarks of the whole town.
The little kids and the ladies went to a town park to play on the playground while Adam, Ian, David, and Mike went to the Country club to play tennis. The court wasn’t as nice as the ones we have in Moberly, but the surroundings were pretty. It was on the top of a hill overlooking the golf course below. The Fincher men beat the Worstell men 5 points to 1.
We all got the kids to bed, then the Worstells brought frozen pizzas upstairs so we could have a little couple time. We played a neat game called Sequence, with Mike and Sandy beating Dezi and me two games to one.
It was a late night, but great fun.
Tomorrow: Winding down
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