Friday, September 25, 2009

Wakeboarding Weekend

This past weekend my sister, Emily, and her husband, Luke, came on a visit to Southeast Texas and we were able to take them to Sam Rayburn Lake for the weekend.

We were totally thrilled to see them and best of all Luke owns a wakeboard that he brought with him. We went out early afternoon on saturday expecting it to be bright and sunny but unfortunately it was overcast and quite chilly much of the day.

Our hott driver :)

Luke was pretty much the only one in the bunch who really knew what they were doing. He used to be on the A&M wakeboarding team (who knew A&M had a wakeboarding team??)
It's hard to tell in this pic but he caught at least a foot of air
Here is me yelling at Emily to hurry and take a picture before I eat it!
This was really funny, Justin couldn't get his feet out of the wakeboard boots so Luke had to jump in the water to help him and they struggled with the board for at least 5 minutes!
At one point Luke was skiing and all of a sudden the boat abruptly stopped and me and Emily flew toward the front of the boat *ouch* we look back at Luke and he is standing in knee-deep water! I think we got a little too close to the shore.
Toward the end of the day, Luke fell on his left side really hard while skiing and busted his eardrum! He didn't know it was perforated at first and he put swimear drops in his ear - big mistake! The pain was excruciating. poor guy!

Overall it was a very fun trip and I am glad they got to experience staying at the lakehouse. They kept commenting on how EVERYTHING IS SO OLD! An owner of an antique shop would have a hayday looking at all the "junk" at the house haha



Monday, September 14, 2009

Got a Reply

I got a letter back from my soldier! She said it was a great morale booster for all the soldiers so that made me happy. The box was shared with the whole group she is stationed with so I guess I should send more things that can be shared in the next box. I didn't think to provide my email address but my coworker Wanette did and her soldier sent pictures of his unit and the surrounding country.