Thursday brought out the boat. We let people choose one hour increments and take their families out for tubing, skiing, cruising or wake boarding. I believe the hits of the day were cruising and tubing. I did manage to talk the boat guys into renting me a Sea Doo Wake Runner for about 4 hours at the end of the day. My interest was trying out what was supposed to be a vehicle made specifically for pulling skiers, wake boarders and tubes. My 240lbs (maybe 230 by now), observer Max's 140 or so and pulling Tom's 170 or so put too much stress (let me digress, MY 240 lbs put the stress) on the PWC. We were able to get them both up and running when they tried skiing but the pull on them and the difficulty getting them up told me this isn't the craft for that particular duty. When I was replaced by Tracy (sp?) things went much better...still, I was not impressed. For the purpose of darting about and just having a two man or three man scoot across the lake....I really liked it. But, for its designed purpose..I'll give it only one star. My only regret is that I didn't jump on this long ago and rent the wave runner for the whole week. The boat is fun for family activity but the waverunner for outright "need for speed" attitudes of the older crowd and some of the younger..is the answer.

PWC and boat out of the water around 1800, then home. The Stinchy crown had a sit down park-like dinner on the grounds of the lodge. The temperature had dropped and the sun was dropping low on the horizon, so the setting was very nice. It was really park-like right behind the lodge on their beautiful grounds. Before total darkness set in the majority hit the pool. We have some film clips of that event.

After dark, a bon fire brought the whole family together out behind the lodge with smors and expert star gazers, with an occasional satellite crossing.

Late into the night came a slide show of the reunion provided by Lexi and Martha. It was great to look back over the week. We really have to get a full CD of all the photos taken (or DVD) so everyone can remember the unique venue that this was. Board games finished the night.....oh, and mom seems to have recovered from her misery.

Off to bed and more to follow. This is Friday morning; no one else is up so off it goes to anyone interested. Sad to see people making their way off to their homes, knowing the next is a long four years away. Dad