And some more Boating

For the rest of the Fourth of July weekend we headed upstate to see John and Linda at their new place on Lake Winnebago.  They are slowly settling in and now have their boat and jet ski launches in place.  It was almost a perfect weekend - just a bit of rain - and having the boats right outside their back door is very nice.  We got right out on the lake on Thursday for what was our inaugural cruise on the lake.  It is a much bigger lake than Lake Geneva and cruising around the entire lake isn't as feasible.  Makes for some changes in our usual lake cruising routine, but we'll figure it out.  As is usual when we visit with John and Linda, we ate too many desserts, had way too many laughs, and in general just relaxed. 

We did hit a couple of restaurants that can be reached from the water which is always fun and got the jet skis out for a long run around one side of the lake.  I also did my first piloting (driving, steering - whatever the term is when you are the one directing the boat) of John's boat.  A bit nerve racking although I managed to not hit anything especially all the people out fishing - I saved that for when I ran into his boat with the jet ski (no damage, thank goodness). 

We tried to have s'mores around the fire ring one night, but the weather conspired against us.  It was very humid so getting the fire started took a while and then we had a Hershey bar disaster as they had all melted before we could even get them onto the graham crackers - the Hershey bars had been accidentally left in a car and got pre-melted, they had resolidified but apparently not correctly.  Anyway,  by the time Jo and I got back to the house we were covered in chocolate from hand to face, but we still managed to get some s'more in our stomachs.

All too soon it was time to head back to reality and for someone to get ready for work - little hint, it wasn't me.