hoover lake house weekend

Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 23, 2007

got my first (finished) look at the hoovers’ new lake house up at lake nottely (spelling?). holy crap, that place is nice. i mean seriously nice. it’s got like twelve rooms and a giant deck overlooking the lake. the new dock is made out of magic jellybeans that don’t get hot and burn your feet even when it’s like 95 degrees and sunny. they also have added a pontoon boat to their repertoire, but we did not avail ourselves of that.

all of the pictures below are from the first day. why? an unfortunate incident that no one could have ever anticipated involving a large bottle of flor de cana and a cold bathroom floor.

anyway, here john shows text book style as he rips a big spray behind the boat.

here, i get a little bit of air coming off the wake.

lillis and john demonstrated excellent enthusiasm (and little good judgment) and tried to start off the day by getting two skiers onto 1 slalom ski. as you can see from the picture, as john wipes out, he drags lillis down by her life vest. cold john, cold.


this is just one of my more favorite wipeout shots. john was trying to do the skurf board behind the boat. i should relay that john actually ended up figuring it out on his very next try and successfully skurfed behind the boat with no rope. the lesson (as always) – john is bad ass behind a boat.

oh, and here’s a little kid that was cold chilin by the dock with his dog. he’s kickin quite a little steve zissou vibe.

here lillis is nose to nose with the dog (whose name eludes me) just moments after splitting the last noodle in their bowl of spaghetti.

rich has mad, hoover-type skills behind the boat as well. here he gets up on one foot while barefooting.

that led to this wipeout. notice the size of the explosion. pretty nice splash.

here, lillis shows off the form that made her a ski queen in lubbock texas.

night fell, but that didn’t stop the ripping.

john got in one last run under the cover of night.


thanks to john for hosting us (about 15 people in all probably) at the lake house. i had a blast, skiing, sunning, cooking, eating and talking. oh, and there was a dance competition and i enjoyed that as well. better luck next time suzanne. for full pics and some video from the weekend, see my web album at www.picasaweb.google.com/charlesbreland

One Response to “hoover lake house weekend”


  1. love-one-god says:
    December 26, 2008 at 6:42 pm

    I remember hearing about this weekend from Lillis. Cool to see the pics, though! 🙂



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