Two weeks ago we bought a new boat! It was pretty exciting, even though we've only been out once so far on it. We got a friend of ours old boat and he bought a new boat. We got rid of the pontoon, but now it's nice because it has a closed bow and Josh and I have said that we're going to go out on a Friday night and stay the night on the lake with it. It's also nice because we can go down on a Friday after work and still get in a good four hours of boating, with the pontoon it would take about 45 minutes to get across the lake so we couldn't stay out too late because we had to get back in. We're pretty excited to get some use out of it this summer. There's the boat and then the closed bow section:
Then this past weekend we had a really fun filled weekend! Friday night we went out with our friends Bryce and Jill and what started as just a night to watch the ICubs turned into a whole night of fun! We had pretty good seats at the game, and even got a few good pictures of Ryne Sandberg!
Our seats:
Then we went down to this German resturant called Hessen House and got a few boots and played the boot game. In Germany they often drink beer out of a boot and they have this game where you can't let the boot touch the table, you can't let it splash you in the face, and you have to flick the boot before you pass it before you have to drink again. The four of us went through two "das boots" but it was more than enough! My whole head almost fit into the top of the boot, to give you an idea about how big the boot was and how much beer it could hold! The kicker (no pun intended) was that it could only be filled with German beer...so the first round was pretty decent, but the second boot was so hard to choke down! I wasn't drinking much, just a sip when it was my turn because I was driving home, but it was a lot of fun, we'll definitely be going back!
Bryce finished the first boot:
Then Saturday we got up bright and early (and Josh was definitely cussing the boot!) and headed to Davenport with some friends to visit Josh's brother and go out on the Mississippi River. It was a lot of fun too - it was so much different than a lake and the traffic was unreal! It was neat to see all the really cool houses on the River, and we got to see a tug boat pushing a barge! We really wanted to do the lock thing where you go in and the water flows out so that you can get down the river, but we couldn't figure it out and depending on how long we wanted to wait we could have been waiting for the water to fill up for an hour or so, just depends on where the water level is at. It was neat to see all the different scenery, and it was also nice to get away for a night. This weekend we're going down to the Ozarks with a group of friends for the 4th, the following weekend is Fundays and the weekend after that we're camping all weekend! So we're pretty full for the next few weekends, but that's what makes summer so awesome. :)
And the other night it stormed and then the clouds showed up and were all funky...so here's a neat picture of that:
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