What would Gerald Do???

Why I scare myself Reason 102:
I was drinking Gin & Juice all night and somehow ended up sober.

Saturday was definately the pinnacle of the trip. We started out the day trying desperately to break free from shore. You see, when Spence docked the boat orginally it still was a little too far away so he managed to throw it in hard. (OMG, that sentence sounds like it should be on a different site) But on trips like these, boys make me laugh because when it came to chopping or gathering wood, tying up the boat or even unlodging us from the shore, boys will always magically appear. The guys from neighboring boats were out giving us a push and away we went.

I'm not gonna lie. I hurt. It was more that I was tired then anything but nothing a quick boat ride couldn't fix. Shaloa perservered & got herself up wakeboarding. Each time doing a little better then the last. Stine gav'er too but b/c of the choppy waters we decided to call it a day. So back to the boat for floats & beer. The day really just zips by. Mostly just sunning, drinking, floating, swimming and taking turns diving off the top of the boat.

We saw some friends on the waters that also had a speedboat & a 3 man ride. One of my favourite parts of the day was when we attached that to the boat & there's Joanna, Krista & Sarah being dragged behind and all you can hear is Krista yelling "I LOVE MY LIFE" over & over again. Not to be out done, Matty got all Macguyver on their ass & managed to anchor drinks out to them.

After a sweaty nap (I'm starting to think I lucked out by sleeping at the kitchen table, those rooms were hot!), and half an hour of shoring the boat, dinner came a ringing. I really couldn't shake the daze of the half hour nap so as I was lazing about on our trampoline (Ian brought this gianormous water trampoline that was later used to do bum drops off the top deck) we could see jet skiiers dotted about. I wave one down & ask if I can go for a ride so he took both me & cynthia for a ride.... LOVE IT. haven't jet skiied in years. Course being the third person on the thing requires some grip so after I flew off the back only once, I decided Cyn's tiny frame could withstand my hold.

Just as everyone's after dinner digestion low time was about to kick in, Shaloa pointed out that it'd be a good time for the limbo stick.

Let me take a moment to explain this to you... this ain't no ordinary stick. No at the 24 hour relay, I was bored so I fashioned this limbo stick out of my lamp stand, a shooter glass, brown paper & ribbons to give all alcoholics alike something to play with.... Yes, it's drunken limbo the fastest way to get rid of 4 bottles of booze in 20 minutes....

Spencer getting it down his frontside

Cynthia going for gold (matty looks freaked!)

Go Cheryl Go (you can sort of see my interesting tan lines starting)

Retarded.. It kick started the boat into a frenzy... if you weren't in the room, we hunted you down... everyone got a turn if not you got 2 or 3 turns.... I may get this patented... it can be included in my beer gardens & patio tour 2007.

The foam party at our neighboring UK boat sucked so we made due & created our own sudsy mess...

After a rinse & a change it was off to the party!

Went to a party at another friend's boat equipped with a sound system & speakers..... SO MUCH FUN! I haven't danced the night away like that since I was ... I have no idea when probably when I was back in my partying hey day! I didn't go home til the sun breached the mountain tops also because I managed to have a splitting headache. As noted earlier I sobered up with Gin.

It's cute small & far away. Up close & large is a scary notion
(am now convinced I should go out and get some prof photos taken just to beef up my self esteem)

You see after the limbo contest I wasn't content, I kept firing it up as it was our last night houseboating & I was going to do it in style. When we arrived at the party boat, I already tripped once over the rocks (although if you saw where we parked it's no wonder I didn't hurt myself more then that!) but because I was fighting gravity, I managed to wrench my hip but I did have the eurphoria mix of fun & a good buzz going on so as I was standing on top of this seat dancing my hynie off, Funiture man came and joined me & offered me his Gin (aka: panty remover....) He knew a classy girl when he saw one.

Lola told me I went full circle. I drank myself sober.. (ew).

One quote I won't forget is in my conversation with Furniture man
Me: Wow, I've had an eventful evening
FM: I swam here.

Yes, he was trumping my comment regarding an evening's event. You see Furniture Man is nuts or at least by my definition. He didn't leave dock with the ship as he was in Vancouver at a wedding. Instead he arrived in the early evening Saturday on a road on the opposite hillside of the beach. So there's him & his friend traversing down the mountainside (300 feet across, 300 feet down) & swimming across the lake to get to the boat.... took him roughly 3 hours.

I can just remember coming back to the boat & seeing Shane & I gave him a giant hug & exclaimed "I had the best time ever!!!!!"

So many things made this trip awesome. Met so many cool people and had such a great time. We all signed up for next year. With the exception of Jo Jo as she's moving to T-dot in 3 weeks but not before she's off to Costa Rica.. BON VOYAGE JO JO!!!

But know this, if you're ever deserted somewhere with Shaloa & Claire, they'll eat you first.