A day at the cottage

My uncle and aunt had us out to the cottage for a day of water-filled fun on Sunday. The weather was perfect for boating, skiing, knee boarding, jet skiing and of course swimming! Cory, Phil, my uncle Steve and I skied. Phil somehow talked Cory and I into knee boarding which we'd never done. Phil makes it look so easy that we both tried it and succeeded, but I didn't find it to be very easy to get up on my knees on the board quickly. Joshua had a blast riding in the boat during all the water activities and watching everyone. Both boys enjoyed playing in the water by the cottage and neither showed any fear - Joshua was jumping off the end of the dock and Matthew was bravely walking around in the shallow end (he fell quite a few times putting his face in the water, never cried, just got back up and walked around again). We ended the day taking a ride on the pontoon boat and stopping in a deeper part of the lake to swim. We sat in disbelief as Joshua did running jumps off of the boat over and over (with his life jacket on of course as we were in 20ft deep water)! It was a fantastic day spending time with family and "playing" all day long! Thanks Uncle Steve and Aunt Cher!

Joshua wanted everyone to get wet.

Playing on the dock.

Jumping off the dock!



SPLASH!



Cory knee boarding.

Cory knee boarding backwards.

Phil knee boarding.

Cory and Joshua taking a ride on the Jet Ski.

Matthew taking a walk down the dock with Uncle Phil.

Steve, Rachel, Joshua and Cher on the pontoon boat.

King of the world, or perhaps just the pontoon boat.

Monkey saw so he had to copy.

Floating in the deep water.

Happy boy floating in his life jacket!

Jumping off the float into the deep water.

Matthew and Uncle Phil hanging out on the float.

Swimming in the deep water.

Joshua was thrilled that Rachel went swimming too!

On the way back to the cottage after a nice swim!

Videos:

Joshua running and jumping off the pontoon boat!

Phil kneeboarding

Joshua jumping off the end of the dock.