Lake Weekend Vacay

I may not have gotten all of my Friday assignments done, and I may have taken today off to catch up, but it was worth getting out of town for the weekend. Six of us went to Charlie's lake house to hang out, get on the boat, and let loose from studying. The weather was, for the most important parts, excellent. As soon as we got there Friday, we got on the boat for a sunset cocktail cruise. Perhaps we should have given a little more thought to the radar and tropical storm Andrea, but it looked good outside, so hey, why not.

Seriously, does it look like anything could go wrong? It was warm outside and the sky looked like this, so we headed out. As it clouded up behind us pretty suddenly, we just figured we could take the boat out to where the sky was clear. Eventually, though, we ran out of lake.

This happened ridiculously fast. The spiral shape was pretty ominous.

Oh captain, my captain. I'm questioning your judgment at this point. Keep in mind we are still dry though.

#NoFilter. These clouds are no joke. Things started to get kinda inky quick.

At first I was worried that Caitlyn would be in all my sweet weather pics, but now having captured this face and those clouds, I'm just impressed. This is her new resume. No words needed, just this face. She just looks like a badass.

After reaching the far side of the lake, we saw the rain start streaming down from the far away clouds, looked at the radar, and felt like maybe it was time to head back to the house. It was kind of a now or never thing. We could literally see the rain falling 20 feet away from us as we sped back in. It couldn't have been better timing. Just as we pulled into the dock, within 15 seconds it sounded like lightning struck directly across the lake from us. A bang loud as hell. We ran inside, and I felt like my arm hairs were standing up for the next five minutes. Matt said he thought the boat had crashed into the dock. Clay thought we might have been dead. Everything was completely fine, and we never actually saw where the lightning had hit. It was nuts! It poured down rain for a while, but we played darts inside, had a small dance party, and after it cleared up went out and jumped off the dock.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to take pics of all the food we made throughout the weekend. It wasn't anything spectacular. The first night, we grilled bratwursts and hotdogs. The next day we had frozen pizzas, lots of popcorn and cheez-its, and an almond poundcake with blackberry preserves that I made in Chapel Hill beforehand. The next morning, I did make some sausage gravy and biscuits. The gravy was from scratch, but the biscuits were from a tube. It was just Jimmy Dean sausage cooked up and browned, about a handful of flour mixed into it, and then 2% milk added and reduced to a gravy consistency. I'm sure whole milk would be better, but this was good! Too bad Matt couldn't get up in time to eat any.

Yeah, buddy.

We went on the boat for most of the day, came in for lunch and the tail end of the Carolina baseball game, and then went back out for a lot of floating, cruising around, and jamming to tunes. Then, we came in and made frozen drinks with the Margaritaville machine- I highly recommend mango margarita mix. For dinner, we had a Mexican night of ground beef tacos and some dirty rice. In the chaos of the evening, we didn't even make all the cans of refried beans that we bought. There was plenty of food and we even had leftovers, which got mixed into a conglomeration by Clay for a late night snack of cheesy ground beef rice. Clay also caught a catfish [that we did not eat].

For floating, not preserving lives.
"I like to float. I don't like to work for it." -Clay

This is what happens when we listen to Dr. Dre.
My mom saw this and said, "Instagram makes everybody look good."

Mango Margarita- These are good.

Clay's Catfish. May have had to leave the hook in it. It'll rust out right?

The weather was so good on Sunday, and we had nothing to get back to Chapel Hill for, so we went on another boat ride, floated around some, and generally enjoyed life for a little while more before we finally headed back.

Can we go out of town like every weekend?