Like last year, this summer we'll be spending most weekends with our friends Kelly and Dustin at Lake Mattoon in central Illinois. We rent the top floor of a house from some very nice people. We spend our early mornings skiing and barefooting on water like glass, then we come back to make a late breakfast and take a nap, and then head back out to the lake in the afternoon. While we all love the boat, Ed and Dustin are in love with the boat...it gets more sweet talk than Kelly and I do (and more than any inanimate object should!).
This was our first weekend at Mattoon, with two significant additions from last year...Thomas, and a full-size refrigerator. No longer do we have to squeeze a weekend's worth of food for four or six people into a little college fridge--now we've got room for plenty of food! Sounds silly, but it'll make a big difference!
The weather was a little nippy for skiing--about 60 degrees, and the water was even nippier. Some people might think we're crazy--first you see Dustin wearing a winter jacket and hat, and then you see us water skiing! Thank goodness for wetsuits. Dustin and Ed each skied a couple times. I did as well--my first time in almost a year!
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