Summer Cruise 2006 - Center Hill Lake

This last week Maggie and I went out with the CBC youth group to Center Hill Lake, about an hour East of Nashville for summer camp (which is why I didn't update the blog sooner). We got to spend the week on the water with two big houseboats, great weather and 3 ski boats. Our speaker was Jon Anderson, the youth pastor from Grace Immanuel Bible Church in West Palm, FL. And, with a bunch of Jr. High and High school girls on board, I had lots of baby sitters for little Maggie.
Everyone got to wakeboarding, tubing, kneeboarding, skiing and swimming to their hearts content! I joined in jumping off the top deck of the houseboats a couple of times, it was a lot of fun. I even spent several days wakeboarding, which was a real treat since I’ve only gone out wakeboarding once or twice a year in the past three years. It was a real treat! Maggie did take one afternoon to “enjoy” the lake. She didn’t like having to be bundled up in her lifejacket very much, and tolerated it about as much as cats tolerate being dressed up in doll clothes. But her little swimsuit was so cute, even though you can’t see it because of her life jacket. I did put a dollop of Desitin on her nose – the zinc oxide in it acts as a sunblock since she is too little for real sunscreen.

She had a much better time just in her swimsuit and little cover-up on the lounge chairs on the top deck of the boat. I didn’t let her stay out in the sun for more than a couple of minutes, though. It was at least in the 80’s each day and wonderfully sunny.She got to sleep in a little hobbit hole in my cuddy cabin. It was just the right size to lay down a blanket for her, and out of the way on the boat so that at nap time and bedtime she wasn’t disturbed by the youth group kids. She didn’t sleep as well as at home though, woke up every morning at 3 or 3:30 and then again at 6:30.