Lake Martin 2015

Um, the lake trip was difficult this year. We booked a house that slept 12 back in February, but the chick emailed me 7 days before vacation that the house was unavailable - whaaaaa?! After losing sleep planning the nasty review for her on HomeAway, we scrambled around and found an old cabin where we'd have to split into 2 parties, and would be the first short-term renters. A tenant had been it for 3 years, and the owner said it was clean and she'd buy us some pots and pans, but we needed to bring all our own towels and paper products, etc. Um, it has some interesting wiring, first of all. This would be the back porch light, operated by a switch outside, plugged into a plug.


And this is what she meant by clean.


I spent about 3 hours sweeping, Cloroxing, running dishes back through the dishwasher, etc. We DID get a refund after the following happened:


This would be my sister's room flooding after a thunderstorm...from one wall to the other wall at 11 PM - nice! Okay, enough negativity. Here's a lovely sunset...


And a little after sunrise - for some reason I woke up around 6 AM every day, so I sat out on the porch and stitched.


Here's Chimney Rock, where a bunch of people were taking their mobility and their lives in their hands by jumping...


After we relocated from the slum cabin, we enjoyed some card games on my Mom's porch...


and some tubing.


Next up, some videos of the action. First, Drew and Parker on the tube - didn't catch their crashes though...



This would be Drew bravely jumping from the slum cabin's awesome boathouse on the first day - no lifejacket!



And we'll end it with my very brave birthday jump...uh, yes, I wore a lifejacket and held my nose!



Have a great 4th of July weekend!