I woke up this morning with the flu. I've never experienced pain quite like it. It felt like every rib in my chest had been broken, and I wished that I didn't have to breathe. I'm glad it's over now. Hopefully that's the worst case of the flu I'll get this year.
However, yesterday was great. It all started with the movie Lagaan at that ended at three in the morning. Carianne Hirano brought it up to show us. We had to watch it with subtitles, because it was a Bollywood movie, all in Hindi. The movie was over three hours long, but it was fun to watch. I tell you, trying to understand a game of Cricket that early in the morning wears your brain out when it is the first game of Cricket you've ever watched.
After a few hours of sleep, everyone got up for breakfast and then got ready and went out on the boat. Savannah Combe wakeboarded first, and then Ryan Taylor went out and learned to kneeboard. Then Carianne learned to kneeboard and then tried to learn to wakeboard. Finally, I decided to get into the water to wakeboard. The water was really rather cold for this time of year, but I acclimated to it after awhile. I only wakeboarded a couple of times. Ryan got seasick, because the boat had been stopped for so long and the waves were rocking the boat. Carianne and I went tubing, and then Ryan and Savannah went. Ryan felt much better once he got into the water.
When we got off the boat and went up to the cabin, my mom's coworker Erin was there with her kids. We got a veggie tray ready and some chips and salsa to eat before we went out on the waverunners and boat. The water was rough when we got the waverunners into the water, and since one of our waverunners was not functioning correctly, Ryan and I ended up on the yellow two person boat in the choppy water. This would have been fine, but it tips over really easy in the rough water with one person, let alone two, and it is hard to get back on when you are in the deep water. Carianne and Savannah were on the four person "tuna boat" and so the ride was a lot smoother for them. I guess I didn't tell them that they should stay close, and they went all the way to Cisco beach in the chop, and we followed them to flag them down. It took that long to do so. That's several miles in the choppy water on a machine that flies out of the water when it hits a wave of a large size.
Ryan drove the waverunner on the way there and part way back. When he stopped a wave caught the boat in the wrong way and we fell off. It was a good thing that Savannah and Carianne were behind us at that point, because Ryan couldn't get back on our boat. He kept falling off. I jumped off and swam to him to get the lanyard to hook on the boat so I could drive by Carianne and Savannah's waverunner and let Ryan jump on the back of mine. By this point the ride wasn't as fun as it was on the way out, because the wind was picking up and it took a lot of strength to stay on the boat. This could also have something to do with the fact that I was driving and it took a lot more effort to stay on the boat. Needless to say, we're both sore today.
We came in and switched waverunners, which was nice for Ryan and I, because then we were able to enjoy ourselves in the chop without exerting the last of our energy. Then we came in and helped finish getting dinner ready. We ate pork loin, corn, and dutch oven potatoes. Awhile later we went on a bike ride. My family has two beach cruisers and a tandum bike. Savannah has a bucket list, and on that list was to ride a tandum bike. She was able to cross that off her list. Ryan and I rode it back to find out that the tires were running low.
When Savannah and Carianne left, Ryan and I went back out for a last run on the waverunners. The water had calmed down, and we had some fun before the sun went down. Then we cleaned up and got raspberry shakes at Hometown Drive In. It was nice to talk to Ryan, although I often feel that I do all the talking. I feel like I pry when I ask questions, so I rarely ask them. So, after we got back we got ready for bed and watched Merlin (well, in between sleeping) and then I let Dylan switch me spots and sleep on the airbed and went into a room to sleep.
Then this morning the first paragraph of this post happened. Ryan and my dad went home to go to church; they're coming back this evening. Tomorrow, if my luck keeps turning for the better, I'll be able to go four wheeling with everyone.
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