Family Reunion

Only two days after I got back to Kentucky, we left for our annual Gordon (my mom's side) family reunion. The Reunion was at the lake of the Ozarks, which I had just driven by two days earlier. We stayed in condos on the lake and had great weather for the whole trip. It was great to see so much of my family that I hadn't seen for a while.

We rented a pontoon boat and went swimming from it in the lake one morning. We had rented the boat for the whole day, but the left pontoon started sinking, so the boat was listing badly. We had to call the rental company from a restaurant that we'd stopped at and have them come rescue us. Unfortunately, they didn't have an extra boat to give us, so our day of boating was cut short.

Trey, Kaela, my Aunt Nancy, and I rented two Jet Skis on our last day on the lake. That was a lot of fun, but with so many larger boats on the lake, the water was very rough.

Patrick and I introduced the rest of the family to geocaching. We took a group of about eight people geocaching in a small park near the condos. Unfortunately, it was basically just a forest with very few trails. We had to do a lot of bushwhacking, so it wasn't ideal for the group of (somewhat) older people we had. Despite the less than ideal conditions (and my uncle spraining his ankle) we got two of our relatives hooked on geocaching. One of our aunts and our uncle who sprained his ankle both loved geocaching and are now caching on their own.