Training Log Archive: Kdsack

This was an interesting day for me. We had a slow morning. We went out on a trip in the motor boat to go skiing. It was a COMPLETELY emply lake not a boat in sight. We've decided this was a perfect day to try SLALOM SKIING. I hopped out of the boat to try it out. My dad decided it was best that I would get pulled out of the water with one ski on, so I tried it. It was very hard to drag my foot in the water while trying to hold my balance to get up. It seemed that though how many times I tried it, I felt that it always ended up the same, in about equal amount of time, I fell. EVERY TIME. It got a little frustrating. So, my mom wanted to experiment something that that might improve my progess. Even though dad didn't like the idea, mom thought that maybe I should try getting up on two skiis ( that I already knew how to do ) and drop one ski in the water whole I'm up. So I tried it the first time, AND IT WORKED! It was amazing, It was really cool to get the feeling of being up on one ski , I LOVED IT! But dad got tired of going back to fetch the dropped ski so I only got to try it twice. My brother gave it a try and he got it too! And so did my mom! My dad tried it but he had some bad knee pain which gave him second thoughts. So after our BIG success we headed home to report our GREAT NEWS to Grandpa.
Tommorow is going to be a GREAT day!

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Visiting my grandpa in Massachusetts who lives on Lake Monomonac. I had a early start. Soon, we went out in our motor boat for a ski in with my whole family the main lake. I had a couple of simple runs with two skiis. My first one I just popped out right away I was surprised that I didn't forget how to ski, I hadn't been skiing here since July.
I had a couple of long runs speeding across the wake. It really tires out your arms since you've been up so long. Surprisingly this was a busy weekend, the lake was VERY crowdeed today LOTS of boats and kayaks were out on the water which made it hard to get up with all the extra wake pushing you around. So my mom and I decided not to try slalom skiing today.Maybe tomorrow, we'll see.

I had a early start, and surprisingly grandpa was up . So, after breakfast, we decided to go down on the dock to fish. Luckly, it was early, so the fish had some room in their bellies. We used stale hot dog buns which seemed to work fairly well. Everything was non-stop, I didn't even give grandpa a 15 seconds to spare. Either it was a fish, or a tangled line,
or something else. I caught about 5 STUPID fish that came right away. After that, the fish got a little smarter and it took a couple of minutes each to catch the next two. All and all I caught seven HUGE fish. I felt this was a succesful fishing day. I dumped them back. to maybe try another day to see if I could catch even MORE!