weekend at the hoover lake house
mr john hoover was gracious enough to have us up to his lakehouse june 25th. so, i played a tennis match with an infuriating partner that morning, but we won, and then i headed up to the lake house. once i got up there, stephen and john and i
went out on the lake. we stayed out there skiing til dark and got some good photos and some very mixed video.
here, john cuts some major spray on the slalom ski. john was sporting his trademark rainbow tow rope in honor of the gay pride activities that were taking place back in atlanta that day. he’s so down with supporting liberal causes…..what a guy.
the next day, i drove out into the countryside looking for bacon, and after we ate some breakfast on the backporch (pictured here)
we headed out on the boat for some more early morning skiing. it was a rainy morning, but captain hoover kept us safe and dry. here he sports kind of an “old man and the sea” sort of captain look. his face says, “don’t talk back to the captain.”
but i know no one really cares about the above pictures…..people might, however, like to see the video. first, here is my first ever successful time gettin up on a wakeboard. obviously, i’m not very good here, but of note, the last time i tried that, i spent an hour trying to get out of the water. within 30 minutes of getting out of the water that day my hands were so tired that i could literally not physically open a beer. this time went much better than that one.
anyway, i know that was boring, but i thought the commentary and coaching was pretty funny. anyway, here are in order some of the good, the bad, and the ugly from the trip.
special thanks to hoover for having us up, and to hoover’s parents for having a SWEET lake house.
Charles too bad you weren’t there a day earlier. I could have supplied you with some wicked sweet footage for your ugly reel. There was also the silmutaneous triple pee off of the boat house. It was a highly skilled and coordinated move that John, Stephen and I were able to pull off without a hitch, while Sara sat in the background clasping her ears and pretending she was in her ‘happy place’. I’m glad you posted this. I didn’t know Capt John and Stephen were capable of falling.