Summer

Well, Classes start in the morning. Summer has come and gone, and it went by so fast, its hard to believe! I actually managed to get away two times for vacations, the first being over the fourth for about 5 days, Wed. to Sun. Part of that was at the lake and the other part was in St. Louis, so I actually got away with both sides of the family, which was really good! Then in the begining of Aug. my dad's whole family went to MN for a week of fun in the sun. We had such a good time! One of the best stories comes from the middle of the week, when my grandpa rented a pontoon boat for an hour and took us all around the lake. We were comming around a point in the lake and there was a 'danger' bouy, and we all pointed it out to him, he insisted in going between the point and the bouy, well, we all warned him, and my cousin looked from grandpa to the bouy about three times then started saying "Ummm, I can see the bottom, it's really shallow here, maybe we should go out and around!!!??? Classical grandpa kept going and we beached the boat, and the motor died!! Luckly it started right back up and we were fine!!! It was so funny, and classic of him. We all about died laughing, my dad actually had tears running down his face, my grandma could have died of hummiliation, she HATES boats, but was trying to be a good sport!! So we make it back to the dock all safe and in one piece, and papa actually docks very well for him, we were all amazed, and he high tails it off the boat and leans off the back to pee, which was also very funny, because we all looked at him and were wondering what he was doing when it became ovbious what he was doing. My middle cousin almost let the cat out of the bag about our incident on the boat, but I managed to stop him, whew!! The trip was so much fun, I hope we can do it again!! The only bad part was when we all left, adn it was on my birthday, that was NOT fun!!