It's so SKI-Z!

A day on the lake is EXACTLY what I needed. It reminded me of my deep-seeded goal to one day own a house on the lake with a boat! Thanks to our generous professor, Katie, Dan, Jesse and I headed out to Clinton Lake yesterday for a day far away from BarBri woes. Here we are, sans Jesse who refused to be in pictures. Don't we look happy as clams to be here?

Dan and Katie are funny. A very competitive couple. Dan thinks Katie sucks at skiing, as shown below.

Unfortunately I failed to capture the essence of Dan's complete yard sale (to borrow a word from the snow-skiing vernacular which is used to describe a very hard fall in which the skiier loses multiple items from their person, such as skiies, poles, gloves, snow hat, etc). Suffice it to say, he's no better than Katie.

Then it was my turn. Here I am, waiting in the water. Reminding myself to think positively and visualize nothing but me skiing beautifully on glassy water. Well, it wasn't exactly glass that day, but it was pretty darn nice.

And just like that...I was up!!!

You can clearly tell from this picture on the right that I was leaning back a little too far and keeping my legs too far apart. Inevitably, I fell very soon.

But don't worry folks, I got right back up. Two or three more times. The last time I was giding beautifully in the wake. After a minute or so, I finally got brave enough to attempt to get out of the wake but that's when I fell again. This time, for the last time. I was pretty happy with myself. And now I've got a goal for next time: get out of the wake and STAY out. And then maybe a jump...who knows?? :)

Here we are, on the way home. A trio who clearly had lots of fun! Thank you, Kansas, for one nice day on the lake!