Water Sports

Last weekend at the lake, the kids didn't feel like tubing on the nice day.  It was the chilly and rainy day that they decided they wanted to go.  So, out we went.  Neither lasted long, but they had fun.

Then Rylan went swimming in the rain, while Kenzie and I ate Cheez-Its in the boat.

On the nice day, Rylan did attempt skiing, but it didn't go so well with these huge skis.  Nick and Brian helped him get them on, 

...then into the water he went. 

Nick rigged up a boom on the boat to help him learn, but the skis were just too clumsy and after one try, he didn't want to do it again.

However, later in the day, Nick and Rylan went to hang out with some friends and they had one of these ski trainer boards. A rope connects the board right to the boat and then the child just hangs onto the rope attached to the board.

So after seeing some of the other kids ski on this thing, Rylan decided to try again.  Sure enough, second try and he got right up.  And go figure, Nick didn't have a camera, so I have no proof other than Rylan's excitement that he did in fact go skiing.  Maybe we will have to wait on the real skis and get one of these.