So Take Your Boat to Work Day is our department's annual team builder. And it. is. amazing. Seriously. We had 2 speed boats, 2 jet skis and a pontoon boat. When we arrived at the party we enjoyed some great cook out food and hanging out. Then, it was time for the boats to hit the water. I started with a pleasant little ride on the pontoon boat. We saw Shaq's house along with a bunch of other giant mansions along the lake shore. We got back to shore and hung out a bit more chatting with the team. I was getting ready to leave around 3:00 when my director insisted I needed to go out on the speed boat to go tubing. It didn't take much persuading to get me out on the boat. Instead of a regular tube we had an air mattress type tube that had a lot of handles on it. Anthony and I were out on it first and we stayed on for about 15 minutes before he tipped us off and I skidded across the water. Next, I got back on the tube with Shaun. Shaun had this brilliant idea we would flip the tube a 360 and keep holding on. Well, on first try, Shaun made it all the way around and I got left in the water. On second try, I held on for dear life but still couldn't make and Shaun fell off too. On final try, Shaun tried convincing me that it was easy to sit up on your knees on the tube. It was not. I fell fast and hard. I had been out on the lake for close to an hour and decided I needed to call it a day as far as tubing was concerned.
I got back to shore and Ryan and I were getting ready to head out when Bryan convinced us to go out in his speed boat for a ride. We rode around in his super fast little speed boat along with Bill and were checking out all the mansions when Dave and Nate pulled up in the jet skis bragging about how they could go 70 miles an hour. I made the comment that I wanted to go 70 and was then told to get on the jet skis. I rode on Dave's jet ski for a while before he convinced me that I needed to drive it myself. We pulled back into shore and I took Dave's jet ski and Dave took Nate's and we went back out on the lake. I may have gotten the jet ski up to 66 miles an hour on my own and it may have been incredibly awesome.
Finally at 5:40 Ryan and I decided we had to hit the road. It was a super fun day and I have bruises EVERYWHERE. But I'm now obsessed with boating. I've also convinced Ryan that a trip to Niceville is definitely necessary. He has promised me that I will get to go....I will be holding him to it.
And now...the best part of the day...KATIE IS HERE. Disney fun day extravaganza tomorrow!! Heck yes :)
