Day 6 at the lake! Saturday

Our last full day at the lake with our friends! We decided (after getting another "late" start due to weariness!) to take a trip to the Lake Murray Dam. We packed lunches, loaded up both the boats with the kneeboards and the Big Bertha tube, and drove to the other end of the lake where the dam is. It is a very pretty ride (although tiring when you are holding onto a tube and Camden the whole way!). Once there, we tootled around looking for a marina for bait and gas (want to make it back home!) I was able to drive the boat around while Dave dropped a line! And we also had rain coming down pretty steadily!

After finding gas and bait, we anchored and ate lunch. The fisherpeople fished off the front of the boat and the kids played in the tube off the back. almost lost Camden head first while he was trying to get in the tube! And then he falls out of the tube when he and Nathan were supposed to be sitting in it! He was ok after bobbing up from the water, but I was a little shaken after jumping in to "save" him!

Joey, Becky, and Jason fishing



Becky and Camryn tubing-Camryn wasn't too thrilled!

Dave and Corey fishing

The kids playing in Big Bertha!!

Camden and Nathan

Camryn

Camden


We tubed and kneeboarded some, but it was very choppy in the open water, so the girls decided to take the kids back, let the men fish, and have them watch the kids while we went out later. This plan almost worked until we got lost coming home, almost lost Nathan in the lake and overall got a little frustrated! (Nathan was just sitting in the tube for the LONG trip home; we looked down one moment; looked up to see there was no Nathan in the tube!; panicked, turned around and saw him floating in the water beside another boat that had stopped to help! He couldn't have been in the water more than 20 seconds, but it was a little scary!)

Hannah and Taylor keeping an eye on Nathan!!

So after that trip home, the women decided to just leave all the kids with them men when they returned and go out for dinner and a movie! We went to Applebee's and saw "Julie and Julia". It was a nice evening and apparently the men also fished while we were gone! Dave caught a gar!!