Weekend on the houseboat

What a wonderful weekend!  Here we are with our friends Brian & Andrea....and Carol & Mike....on Brian & Andrea's houseboat.  Besides enjoying being together, the weather was absolutely perfect...about 90 degrees... and we slept on top of the houseboat, looking up at the heavens.   It was a new moon, so there was no light from the moon.  I was totally amazed at the stars!

Saturday we went kayaking!  These pictures are not of my guy and I....since I was taking the pictures.  This is Mike and Carol. 

Look how in sync those paddles are! 

 Brian and Andrea said the water was starting to get cooler, but as you can see, Brian hopped right in.  It was actually about perfect, once you got used to it!

Inside their houseboat, we were getting ready for some lunch...

My guy was cutting up a watermelon...

Mike and I are alike in that we both CRAVE the sun...the heat!  He waited until he got good and hot...

and then down the slide he went... we heard a slight moan as the coolness of the water hit the heated up Mike!

Carol had all kinds of facts she was reading out of the Reader's Digest!

My guy....

Who also decided to go down the slide...

Only, as you can probably see, he landed right on his rear... It had to have hurt...

"Oh no, it's great!" he answered.

Brian...

My guy...eating something...probably peanuts!

Brian...

I love this!  The sun was shining brightly on the lake...

When it was time to cook dinner...we had an...oops!  The grill wouldn't start.  The guys analyzed the situation...then realized there was no propane.... not a problem, though.  There was another bottle!

The salmon...

The new bottle of propane...

We had ignition...

Our dinner was excellent!  Salmon, veggies cooked on the grill, garlic bread.... Yum!

Like I said earlier, we slept under the stars ...

Sunday morning we (notice I said 'we'...but I should say 'they' since you don't see me) got all the padding and sleeping bags folded up and rolled up and put away...

I was trying to set my camera up so I could use the timer... my guy and Brian were my guinea pigs...

My guy wanted to take a picture of me and Carol..

To get everything ready, the kayak had to be hoisted up to the upper deck of the houseboat...

Here's the three guys... Brian, My guy, and Mike

Andrea and Brian...

a turtle...

Carol and Mike... ahhhh....

My guy and I...

The group....

We were ready...time to pull up the stakes...

and roll up the ropes...

This stump reminded me of a man climbing up the bank..with a backpack of sorts on his back...

The boat was hooked up behind the houseboat...

and Brian started the boat, put it in gear, and off we went...

leisurely traveling back to the marina where Brian and Andrea dock their boat...

Isn't it beautiful?  Even with the water level of the lake down, it's still gorgeous, in my opinion!

I rode a lot of the way back to the marina on top of the houseboat...

Once we got fairly close to the dock, Brian put the houseboat in neutral, and as he said, the girls said 'goodbye' to the 'mother ship'! 

Andrea, Carol, and I climbed into the ski boat...waving to our men...

and Andrea drove the ski boat to the dock... they were bringing it home for the winter!

The mother ship...

As we cruised into the dock, I was sad to leave...

It was a wonderful, wonderful weekend!