Our snazzy blue boat is ours no more, but the memories will never leave, I'm quite sure! Keith sold this boat to a buddy. Just for fun, lets hear some memories from Eric's point of view. This was written when Eric was 13.
My family knows a lot of ways to have fun. We ski, fish, hunt, camp, go on hikes, and a lot more. When I am around them, it is easy to have fun. My top three ways to spend time with my family are inner tubing at Lake Samish, vacationing in Hawaii, and skiing at Sun Peaks in Canada (or anywhere else).
My family has gone inner tubing for a lot of years. We probably started even before I was born. Lack of technology never discouraged our family from having fun. We used to use an old fishing boat (The one pictured above) and actual tire inner tubes with a rope tied around them. For life jackets, we used bulky, un-sporty, fishing PFDs. Apparently, the tubes were not meant for tubing on a lake. They would randomly submerge for about four seconds at a time, but my siblings say it was about ten seconds underwater. Eventually, we got a large tube meant for tubing on a lake that could fit three people on it. Later on we upgraded to fancy water ski life jackets. This year my brother and dad bought a fancy water ski boat that came with water skis. We got another inner tube so we could play bumper tubes. The new tube was smaller and moved around a lot more so it would bump into our bigger tube. A couple of times, the new, blue tube collided with the other one really hard and the blue tube flipped over the big tube. There were two people on each tube and somehow someone from the blue tube knocked someone off the red tube. After that collision I was the only person still on the tube.
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Randomly submerged NOTHING! It's obvious Eric never experienced the near death situation. What really happened is Dad would take off and as the boat sped up, the rope would drag the tube and rider under water. It took about three years to resurface, and if you could hold on for the entire time (not so easy with no handles) then you got to ride above water. But nobody did any tricks in those days. As soon as the boat cut too sharp, the tube would dump you out and then you had to decide, do I want to try this again or are my lungs not up to it?
Also if you are going to post about the boat, you had better mention Dad's amazing contraption to make the boat move backwards. That was some good fishing, but the exhaust smell was a bit of a deterrant if I remember right.
Oh man, Katie! You have a much better rendition of the boat memories. That is WAY closer to the truth. Obviously Eric never experienced the full impact of the innertube life threatening experience because he was too young. Maybe it's a good thing he didn't write the actual truth and turn it in to his teacher. We may have been in big trouble!
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