LAND O'LAKES - AND WE DON'T MEAN MINNESOTA BUTTER!
Ok, this was the the day to top all days. We're in Neenah (poor person's suburb of OshKosh) staying with our soon to be ex-friends, Guy & Cary. Since it is the midwest, we were up at the crack of dawn - 11am - and downstairs looking for breakfast. They still were a little ticked off because of the incident last night with their toaster oven, but in our defense, it seemed like a good idea at the time to dry our underwear in it. Anyway, after a hearty bowl of CoCo Puffs (with skim milk - gotta watch the fat!) we were off to the marina and an exciting day on the water.
We filled the boat with ice chests full of sodas (at least that what we told the water patrol) and were off to a beach area where all their friends hang out and party. It was packed with boats and kids and dogs and people generally just having a good time - then we arrived. The trouble all started when Guy asked Kevin to back up the boat a few feet to set the anchor. Somehow (it must have been a manufacturing defect) the boat went forward and fast! Guy's foot was stuck in the anchor line and before Kevin could stop it he'd been dragged 75 feet through a bunch of teenagers floating on inner tubes. Let's just say it wasn't pretty.
But wait - it gets better! Once the anchor was set (with Guy doing it this time) we headed off wading around to meet their friends. It all went pretty good until Kevin "accidentally" spilled a beer on some woman's chest. That was fine, but her husband didn't appreciate Kevin then yelling, "...hey everybody - wet t-shirt contest over here!" He took off after Kevin like a Banshee with Stacy yelling, "bring back some more beer when you're done fooling around." Fortunately, the Water Patrol arrived just in time and broke the whole thing up. It's also too bad that Guy & Cary had to have the boat towed back (the anchor incident apparently cracked the hull), but they couldn't use it anyway since they've been banned from the marina for the year now by the patrol. All in all, we considered it a successful day and can't wait until we have more exciting Wisconsin fun tomorrow!

Lunch on the water - it's GOURMET! Why do we like boating? Look, it's just fun being on the water.

Guy explaining to Stacy & friends about the anchor incident. Pulling the boat out - the hull is history!
We filled the boat with ice chests full of sodas (at least that what we told the water patrol) and were off to a beach area where all their friends hang out and party. It was packed with boats and kids and dogs and people generally just having a good time - then we arrived. The trouble all started when Guy asked Kevin to back up the boat a few feet to set the anchor. Somehow (it must have been a manufacturing defect) the boat went forward and fast! Guy's foot was stuck in the anchor line and before Kevin could stop it he'd been dragged 75 feet through a bunch of teenagers floating on inner tubes. Let's just say it wasn't pretty.
But wait - it gets better! Once the anchor was set (with Guy doing it this time) we headed off wading around to meet their friends. It all went pretty good until Kevin "accidentally" spilled a beer on some woman's chest. That was fine, but her husband didn't appreciate Kevin then yelling, "...hey everybody - wet t-shirt contest over here!" He took off after Kevin like a Banshee with Stacy yelling, "bring back some more beer when you're done fooling around." Fortunately, the Water Patrol arrived just in time and broke the whole thing up. It's also too bad that Guy & Cary had to have the boat towed back (the anchor incident apparently cracked the hull), but they couldn't use it anyway since they've been banned from the marina for the year now by the patrol. All in all, we considered it a successful day and can't wait until we have more exciting Wisconsin fun tomorrow!

Lunch on the water - it's GOURMET! Why do we like boating? Look, it's just fun being on the water.

Guy explaining to Stacy & friends about the anchor incident. Pulling the boat out - the hull is history!

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