The week in photos

Eric Call took us out on his 2000 Nautique V-drive on Thursday.  They live in Discovery Bay, right on the water.  It's a sweet setup.  The boat sits on a pontoon and when you want to go out, you just lower it into the water.  Slick.  

The V-drive has a significantly bigger wake than a direct drive boat and we dumped Scott and Tyler off the tube.  Eric said that when v-drives were first installed, all the waterskiers were selling prematurely those boats because the wake was enormous and the wakeboarders snatched them up.  Then Nautique capitalized on the notion and made the wake even bigger. 

No one took any pictures of the wakeboarding but I had a good run with lots of big jumps, three failed flip attempts, and an injured knee.  Each of the kids got up and rode the wakeboard enough to say that they could do it.  The water was at least 78 degrees.  It was awesome. 

Here's the island sans top.  The granite is coming in august.  Mister has made this his little hideout.

Evan got his mission call to Cambodia!  Wow.  He's pretty stoked.  He's been watching the kids this summer while Heidi works. 

We ate din din with the Blodgetts in their new home.  Missy, Viv, and Maddie.

Devin living the dream.  We even did some work on his garage door.  The drive gear failed and he replaced it, but didn't line up the upper and lower limit switches.  We had to loosen the chain and put it back on correctly.  Devin was pretty excited.  The infrared sensors still don't work, but that's for another day. 

 Heidi and Kim

Maddie

Coop throwing a pose

Okay, that's all for now.  Bye.