Maiden Voyage

Well, today we took the new, slightly used boat out on Lake James. After trying for several days to work on the motor, Danny finally took it up to Green Hill to see Tim Garner. Tim found the problem almost immediately and fixed it. Tim is Mike Garner's brother and for those of you who don't know, Mike is probably Bo's best friend from forever. Anyway, we took Jamie and the girls with us.

Here's Jamie bringing the boat into the dock so we could all get on. Look at that water! Man, I just couldn't wait to get in it. We went over toward where Danny's jobsite is at and anchored for a little while and did a little fishing. Then after much pushing we finally convinced Danny to travel around the lake a little ways. Don't understand why but he wanted to load back up and come home right after we fished for about 30 minutes.
Here we are tooling around the lake. Gabby took this pic. Don't be concerned about the foul look on Danny's face. He was scowling because Gabby stood up the take the pic and it kinda scared him.
Gabby and Annabelle had a great time but all they wanted to know was when I was gonna get off the boat and go swimming, so they could too. Well, shortly after this pic was taken, I finally convinced Danny to stop and let me swim in the middle of the lake ( the fish finder depth goes to 120' and there was no bottom on the finder, so we were in deep water). I dove off and then Jamie put Annabelle in and she freaked. Then he put Gabby in and she freaked even worse. Needless to say, they were both scared of the water. When we got back to the dock area, I took both of them over to a little swim area nearby. Annabelle actually went out over her head ( with a vest on of course), clinging to one arm and was laughing and having a good time. Gabby was still afraid. I'm gonna have to work on this one a little harder. But we still had a great time and are looking forward to a lot more. I have to go now. It's 1:30am and I have church in the morning. Good night all. Jen