The weather was amazing yesterday in Austin. My friend Bob invited a few of us to go wakeboarding on Lake Austin. I tried water skiing once, and I was never able to get up. Being my first time wakeboarding, I was naturally terrible. I was able to get up after 3 tries, but I couldn't manage to stay balanced for more than a few seconds. After sucking in a bunch of Lake Austin water, I called it quits after 8 attempts.
We spent half the day wakeboarding. We spent the second half of the day on calmer waters in a cove of Lake Austin. It's amazing how 85 degree weather draws people to the water. And it's only April! While in that cove, another friend of ours made some great cocktails with some sort of booze he brought back from Brazil and combined it with fresh kiwis and strawberries. I blew up this huge inflatable raft shaped like a dragon and floated around on that while Bob tossed the football to me. And while we were tossing the football around in the lake, a brown Labrador retriever swam up to the boat, named Taco from its id tag. Since he was getting tired from swimming we brought him onboard Bob's boat to get rest because we had no idea where he came from. We speculate he was attracted to the football we were tossing around. No other boat claimed him, and with the aid of cellphones and the internet we were able to figure out where Taco lived. Unfortunately, the owner wasn't home. We dropped Taco off at a near by home where another good Samaritan help Taco home on land.
We felt so good about our deeds that we boated up to Hula Hut, which is my favorite restaurant in Austin. Even though we had to wait 1.5 hours to get a table, it was worth it. While waiting for our table we decided to throw the football around some more. As foolish as we were, we kept throwing the ball around the boat dock. Bob handed the ball off to some random girl and she played catch with us. To catch all of us guys off guard she long snapped the ball to Bob...no one paid any attention to the ball. Splash! Rob ended up swimming after the ball. This time he was the good Samaritan.
What a great April Sunday!
