Traditions and Boat Failures

As I previously mentioned in one of my blogs, the plans for this trip have been constantly changing. You would think that once we were on vacation, the plans would be set in stone, but no. Fortunately for me, this is a welcome change. My whole family was going to have to leave the lakehouse and drive up to Kansas City to my grandparent's house so that my sister could go to this college visit, but yesterday (or maybe the day before), my parents decided that my sister and mom would go up by themselves in my grandparent's car, and then we would follow them there the next day (today). As you can imagine, I was happy about this change because it meant that I would get an extra day down at the lake.
But back to what I have been doing since I last blogged. I think I was complaining about the fact that we hadn't done any of the things that we normally do. Well, per tradition, on Wednesday, we ate lunch at the Port Grill, and then for dinner, got pizza from Pizza Hut. I was kind of hoping to go to Pizza Hut by boat, but you can't have everything. The only tradition that we have left to do is go tubing, but I don't think that is going to happen, seeing as the tube has a whole in it somewhere. I'm not too disappointed in that turn of events, though it would have been fun to go tubing at least one time, even if it was behind the waverunner. Anyway, at the Port Grill, I got a Reuben sandwich, which was pretty good. Mind you, it was no Zingermans, but I didn't expect it to be. Even though the food was pretty good (excepting the onion rings we got for an appetizer - the crust was all flaky), it took forever to get anything. Granted, we did have a big group, but there were people who came in after us, who had groups just a little smaller, who got their food first. It was pretty annoying. But the meal there isn't really what was important about this trip, that was the same old, same old. It was what happened afterwards that is memorable. Right when we got out of the no-wake zone and tried to go faster, there was something wrong with the boat. My uncle wasn't sure what was wrong with the boat, and didn't want to risk anything, or to turn the engine off, in fear that it wouldn't start again, so we had to drive all the way home at about 10 mph - in the hot, sunny afternoon. Needless to say, it was not the fun experience we were looking for. We managed to make light of the situation, though, by making a video pretending that we had been on the boat for 60 days, or something like that, and were all about to eat each other. It was pretty funny. When we finally got back to the dock, we were all sweaty and hot, and as soon as it was possible, we all jumped into the lake to cool off. Of course, it was just our luck that as soon as we went back to swimming, it got cloudy, while while when we were stuck on the boat, the sun was beating down on us.
Fortunately, the boat got fixed yesterday, so we were able to go on two boat rides that were faster than 10 mph. It was a huge improvement. We even got off to go swimming, in a cove that is apparently called "Party Cove," though there didn't seem to be any partying there at the time we stopped. Like I said before, I'm not really sure what the plans for today are, but hopefully, we will be able to spend some time down at the lake before we have to leave. Until next time, then!