When it is too pretty a weekend to stay inside, too hot to work outside, you have a new-to-you motor home, and sank a small fortune into a pontoon boat with all the toys, what you do is call up your best friends and neighbors and ask them to go camping and boating with you. 

Audrey and I make up the food, Phillip (my husband) and Randy fuel the vehicles and off we go to our local resort area on Kentucky Lake.  Early Friday afternoon we set up camp and put the boat in the water, cook out, and play some Jimmy Buffet on the stereo to set the mood for the beginning of summer.  Couldn’t be more perfect, right?  Little did we know of what the morrow would bring . . .

Saturday morning we cooked a big breakfast, packed some beer, water, and snacks, and headed for the pontoon boat.  We found a nice little quiet cove, threw the noodles in the water, and played like children.  After awhile, we dug out the intertubes and went over all the rules and signals since Randy and Audrey had never been tubing before.  I’d say they were excited about it.
 

Audrey and I went first.  Phillip, our captain, pulled us all around the cove while Audrey got used to it.  When we tired, it was Randy’s turn to go next.  Audrey and I played lookout.

Now Randy’s got a head full of salt and pepper hair, very white teeth, and is well over six feet tall.  Audrey and I laughed and laughed at how big his smile was and that all you could see were his white teeth and long legs up in the air through the water sprays.  After learning the signals for going faster, us lookouts told the captain to speed it up.  He took a spill or two and then was ready to get back on the boat.
 

While blowing up a different tube, Randy gazed around and said, “This is just like a dream.”  Audrey and I both thought he was just having a great time.  After a few minutes, he said it again, this time with a vacant look in his eyes.  We still didn’t pay that much attention to him and after another intertube was blown up; we asked him if he wanted to try it.  He said okay.  Back in the water he went and the captain pulled him round and round.  After he wiped out, we pulled him back in the boat.(click on Read More below for the whole story)<!--pagebreak-->