Wakeboarding

I can't tell you how many times I have been boating, but have never tried wakeboarding. This is mostly because my rational told me I would be absolutely terrible at wakeboarding. So why waste the time of these nice people who are actually good at the sport (is it a sport?). Well, on Friday Shannon and I went camping with some friends who have a boat and multiple wakeboards. They were insistent that I give in and give it a try, promising that they would be patient as I learned. Turns out, I am not as terrible as I thought I would be. It took me about 4 tries to get up and I took some pretty crappy falls before I learned the art of standing on the water, but I did it! It was fun too! I couldn't quite figure out the getting all the way across the wake stuff, but one thing at a time. I was just ecstatic that I actually got up, yeah - me - Amber - the klutz of all klutz's who fell mountain biking, who runs because it takes no coordination, held onto a rope behind a boat and stood up. I rock. I even have pictures to prove it.

This face means - "Holy Crap I got up!"


This face means - "Dude, I totally got this!"


This is Shelby in the air - she actually does rock.


And my favorite part of the whole trip - Shannon forgot to put on sunscreen so by the end of the day she had to shield herself from the sun under a towel. Poor red Shannon!


Thank you to Shelby, John, Christen and Jason for taking us out on your boat! It was such a fun time!

***I would also like to note that people in Oregon go boating on rivers. This is really weird to me because my association of a river is one like Provo River. You can try and try, but you are NOT boating down Provo river. I am so used to boating in lakes and reservoirs that I couldn't even wrap my head around boating in a river?! Chalk that up to another weird Oregonism.