Sling Shots, Black Eyes, Water Spouts...OHH MY

Saturday was suppose to be planned as a casual day of just the girls going out on our friend Chris' house boat for a nice, peaceful, and relaxing day. The husbands had a change of plans, so they ended up going with us. Okay, that works, couples boat trip it is! We didn't get off to a good start and we probably should have known things were only going to go south when Chris had to go buy a new battery for the boat. Once we were able to get the battery working and had the boat all gassed up, what would you know, it begins to POUR! Okay, no big deal. The rain will pass. They didn't say it was suppose to rain all day, right?!

We make it to our destination, Hart Miller's Island. Things are going fine and everyone is really enjoying themselves even Chris' dog Buffet was having a blast. A few hours and a few beer later the boys get a bright idea. Lets bring out the sling shot and start shooting beer cans from it to the guys out in the water. Maybe not the worst idea ever if it wasn't for the fact that one of the boys on the receiving end of that beer about to head his way at an extremely high rate of speed was my lovely husband. Poor guy didn't have a clue what was being thrown his way, and as he goes to reach for the "Football" (as he said it was) he misses and straight to the eye it goes. After this moment the day (for me at least) went to hell. I started to become slightly annoyed and the rain/ crappy weather wasn't helping my mood. We finally begin to head back to shore. We hit some heavy rain and it begins to look pretty ugly out. The next thing we know, Chris comes out of no where screaming "The back of the boat, look at the back of the boat!!" Okay, what else could go wrong today, I mean really? Well, we all head for the back of the boat and what would you know, a huge water spout is heading right for us! This thing was extremely scary looking and all I can think is "I am going to die on this god damn boat with a bunch of drunks and no one is going to even know how this happened!" Some of us headed to the back/bottom of the boat. Others thought it best to hang outside the boat and watch the many water spouts that (supposedly) kept forming around us.     

My girlfriend Mandy was the only smart one to grab a life jacket (well the dogs life jacket). So I began to envision us all going under and Mandy being the only one who would survive. I thought how she would go on to tell our story and they would make a Lifetime movie about us. So of course we had to discuss who would play us all. The crazy water spouts dissipate and we finally make it back, but not before going out with a bang and a save! So the boys one by one seem to be falling in to the water right at the peer we docked at. Our friend Chuck lost his glasses when he fell in. My sweet (drunk) husband decides to jump in to find them . I mean really, what are the odds of you finding his glasses at the bottom of that gross, muggy, nasty water? Well obviously the odds are good because sure enough Dan found them! It was a crazy, yet happy end to our fun filled rainy day. I some how managed to take no pictures this entire trip except the best one of all.

Ouch