Seatle Day 3: Wakeboarding on American Lake

A beautiful day for wakeboarding on a cool lake with an island in the middle and a view of Mt. Rainier with Natalie, Nick, Jenn, Caleb, and Steph.
Everyone performed amazing aerial acrobatics -- except me, I just pulled a lower back muscle. The amphibious car below is cool, it just drives right into the lake. These people must live on the island in the middle of the lake. In taking this picture we drove a little too close and our wake caused them a little trouble. Sorry sailor-hat guy!

Natalie's 360

Unfortunately, we didn't get a good pic of Natalie's 360 on the wake (she's way better than I am), but here's her jump approach.


And this is one of my many attempts at jumping the wake.

Lake Shasta Houseboating

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This picture is beautiful--not because of the sunset, which is ok--but because we're waterskiing on an empty lake at sunset. We definitely got our fill of wakeboarding in this weekend, every morning and afternoon for 3 days. I only use those muscles twice a year so I'm pretty sore. Natalie did a couple more 360s on the wake to rub it in that she's better than me, I finally jumped over the entire wake, and Mike even let us drive his boat!

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We got the Ultimate Cruiser boat so we made full use of the hot tub and waterslide. After enough beers, this football-catching game off the waterslide is quite entertaining.

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Clay provided the relaxation raft. Lisa planned an excellent menu so we never went hungry. The best part was just being with a bunch of other young couples and having the time to have some real conversations.