Weekend at BL

Yes that is right we did it again. Like our usual routine we are pretty much back to every other weekend at Bear Lake! This weekend was a little more fun than usual. We were able to coordinate with our friends The Gates annual Bear Lake (BL) trip. It was such a blast to see Corey come out of his quiet shell and look like he was having fun! Friday night we met them at the local BBQ restaurant. Afterwards we convinced them to come hang out at my parents house for a couple of hours. My dad gave them a tour of their place and then we started a fire and sat around talking and roasting marshmallows. Kayden, The Gates 5 year old son, was in love with roasting the marshmallows. He would stick them so close they would instantly catch on fire and then he would pull a little Dennis the menace trick while trying to blow them out. I almost died laughing I though for sure he was going to end up flinging a fiery marshmallows somewhere.

After some much needed sleep that night we woke up early and headed down to the beach to stake out our spot for the day. When all was said and done we had it all! Covered canopy, chairs, blankets, portable crib, sand toys, horse shoes, and volleyball. Now we just needed the people! After an hour of waiting Corey and Holly showed up and we helped the anchor off. Within the next hour my parents friends and their two kids and another friend with some of their friends showed up too. All in all it was a group of about 20 people. We did some boating and of course all the beach activities mentioned above. It turned out to be around 12 hours at the beach that day!

Sunday we got up early again but everyone was a little more tired. It took some convincing but I got Ashley, Kris, and Dad to go out on the boat again. I wanted to get out on the wake board! So we found the Gates out on the lake and headed over to the North side of the lake for calmer and warmer water! Oh boy it was! It has been 2 years since I have wake boarded but it felt great to get back out on the water. Kris didn't because he had sun burnt the tops of his feet really really bad and didn't want to squeeze them into wake board bindings. Understandable! After some skiing by dad we all stopped and started to float for a while swimming around and what not. When Corey dove in the water, not realizing how deep it wasn't! It was just shy of 5 feet deep. He had hit the bottom head first and jarred his neck! He already has a messed up back so this was a very very bad thing. We followed them back to the Marina where Kris escorted them to the local clinic where the Doc checked him out. Everything looked okie dokie but told him to take it easy for a while. Its never a good weekend at Bear Lake unless there is some drama!