Porcupine Bay 2009

Well after about 6 years of not going to Porcupine Bay as a Parrish Family, we finally did it again this year. And it was so fun! (sidenote: minus the bees!) The bees were SOOOOOO bad. It was supposed to be the whole Parrish Family, but between the bees being so bad and Michelle's baby Camryn not sleeping very well at night, we took off a day early. So Terry and his family and Lindy never made it up there.
Monday morning, my mom and dad, my uncle Steve's family, my good friend Pam and her kids and me and my kids headed up... With only slight incidents like Steve getting pulled over (which was totally random because he was following me) and 2 blow outs on the boat trailer, yes, you read correctly, 2! We all arrived safe and sound. And then... about 5 minutes into unloading we hear a blood curdling scream from Miss Chloe... she had just received the first of many beestings of the week. I think everyone except Landon and Brent got stung at least once. (Aizlyn took the record at 7! One got caught in her shirt and got her 4 times!) We set up camp, had dinner and took the boat out for a quick spin before sitting down to a camp fire with smores and guitar music played by yours truley and Pam. It was soooo fun! What is it about a camp fire? Anyway, the next morning we woke to the Beautiful lake and took the kids out to tear up the water on the tube...
Here's Ky and Brandon.... It was so fun to watch them. They all laughed so hard!


By the end of the week Landon was our little showboater out on the tube. He'd climb all around and bounce and I'm pretty sure at one point he stood up. It was so cute! They all loved the tube.
While the kids were tubing Aizlyn and Kennedy were happy to sit in the boat and cheer them on. Theyd scream and cheer and clap. It was very cute. *Sidenote on Kennedy tubing to come later....


Not to be left out Pam and I got out there to "get 'er done!"

Yes! That is a one person tube we are both on! I haven't laughed that hard in a loooong time. I was so afraid I was gonna pee my pants. (Not good with Pam on top of me) Pretty sure she was holding up my shorts most of the time and at one point she was falling off and I was trying to hold her on.... I couldn't quite laughing!

Pretty sure she looks like a model in EVERY picture! She has the most beautiful face... Isn't there something about getting your picture taken next to beautiful people? Like DON'T?!

The boys loved driving with Grandpa... So serious!


We spent HOURS every day swimming in the lake and the kids jumped off this platform over and over. It was about the only place to be where there were no bees...


We spent FOREVER on this sand castle... I don't think I've ever built a sand castle. Anyway, we were pretty proud of it... we went over swimming and I look over and Aizlyn and Kennedy are stomping all over it... Bye Bye Sand Castle!

We got in lots of good Wakeboarding, the water is soooo great there! Totally makes up for the bees! I decided to take Kennedy in the tube... what could go wrong right? I'll hang on to her, she'll love it! So she's crying, "No mommy no tube!" and Jacob looks at me and says, "This is not a good idea, Babe" I look at him, roll my eyes and think, "it'll be fine. I always take the kids when they are little". So we hop in and the boat starts to go. Ya know how when you first start out the tube dips down in the front until the boat planes? Well, I knew that would happen so I'm leaning way back totally prepared. We start dipping and I think "Just hang on. It'll pass quick!" Except we keep sinking and sinking and sinking and I am TOTALLY submerged in the water, trying to hold up Kennedy so she doesn't drown and realize that we aren't coming up. "Why isn't the boat GOING?" I keep thinking. "GO GO GO!" Which, I actually tried to yell and I think Brent thought I was saying to stop. I finally roll us off the tube still trying to hold Kennedy up above the water. She crying and when I come up theres Jacob right next to me in the water. He totally jumped in, in his clothes I might add, to save his little girl. How cute is that? Thanks Babe! Anyway, Brent just didn't know that he needed to get going faster to get us up. I hope I didn't totally traumatize Kennedy forever about being behind the boat. Dr. Kris, here we come!

Other than that, there were no boating mishaps. Everyone had a ton of fun! I think I've decided though that my ideal lake/boating vacation would take place at a condo or cabin... Camping is just sooo much work. I want to ski and board and be on the water but be able to prepare food in a kitchen and sleep in a bed and take a hot shower at night! Ya just can't beat the water there though! So in a few years I'll probably forget about the bees and how much work it was and say, "Hey! Lets do Porcupine Bay this summer!"