I spent Memorial Day weekend with good friends at Lake Mead in celebration of John Carpenter and Lilian Seto's upcoming wedding in June. John is the rather large-pasty-freckled fellow in the center of the picture above. His brother, Daniel (aka 2.0), is the slightly less large, less pasty guy in the back. Also attending was Grant "Mongo", Brant, Dave "Wastere", Paine, Pat, Kirk, Mike & Estes. The weekend itself probably resembled "The Hangover" less and "Revenge of the Nerds" more but we had great weather, an awesome boat (sortof... see below), and an unbelievable time with friends. It was so nice to catch up with people who I have not seen for a long time and also reminisce about stupid things we have done, seen, and sometimes even caught on film. A really wonderful time and I can't wait to see everyone again at the wedding.
Now... a house boat is a large machine to park. As we found out, it is very difficult to keep it in the same place in one piece. On Saturday night, about 2:45 in the morning, a strong wind pulled the stakes holding our boat perpendicular to the shore out of the ground and flipped our boat around... smack into the beach. Believe it or not, we were not in the best of shape or mood when we found out what happened so we secured our boat, now parallel to the shore and tried to sleep a couple more hours. At about 7 in the morning we woke up, counted our blessings there wasn't a boat on that side of us, looked out in shame at the boats trying to dock on our beach, and were able to push our boat into open water. As we went to our next cove, we realized our boat could only turn left!!!! A couple odd-looking circles later, we found out that the bar that guides the props together when turning was completely broken. We did the only logical thing we could think of next... dock with one prop and lay on the beach with a couple drinks in hand. As we turned the boat in on Monday we were worried about how much they would charge us for our damages. Thankfully, the older female worker that we turned the boat over to was a bit smitten with one of our attendees. Not only did we not have to pay for anything extra, we got a refund for the time we lost from only having one prop working.
