To celebrate John’s birthday we went water skiing as a family on January 24. We drove 3 hours to Lake Mulwala (border of Victoria and New South Wales) to spend the night and got up early Saturday morning to head out on the lake. Friday night we went into Yarrawonga (Pop. 512) for dinner and decided to try pizza down under. It was terrible, absolutely horrible. But at least the weather was great, wind was non existent, the air was warm and we thought we would have perfect skiing conditions the next morning. However, upon waking up we discovered that during the night we had experienced one of Australia's infamous dramatic weather changes. The wind had picked up and the air temperature had dropped significantly. When we arrived at the Lake our skiing options were limited to a small area along the shore or up along the Murray River (a 40 minute boat ride away).
As you can tell from the pictures, when they decided to dam the Murray River in 1939 they were doing it for the purpose of water conservation and did not consider recreation. The trees that lined the original river are still in evidence and give a new definition to "running the slalom course". However, once we decided to go up river the water was fantastic and much warmer than the air outside.
John enjoyed great runs with some gnarly cuts and one spectacular wipe out! (unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of the wipe out)
Jenny even got up, her first time since she was 11 years old.
Colin and Brooklyn both gave it a go and we hope to get them out on the river again soon.
4 comments:
Good form guys, I am very proud of you all. John must have wiped out because he left his fine tuned ski in Texas and it just didn't feel right. Looked lean and fit however. Jen, were you on a slalom? Crazy woman! Colin and Brooklyn you were very brave to try-keep it up you will do it. I can just picture Bella and Jared cheering everyone from inside the boat wrapped up in their towels, happy to be watching and staying warm.
I'm curious..did you guys take turns driving the boat, or was it someone else? I'm impressed if you took a turn driving, Jenny!
I had to LOL about your terrible pizza experience. What food have you discovered in Australia that you LOVE??
Happy Birthday, John!!
Seriously! Do you guys just play every day. I am so jealous. What fun you are having with your kids.
Dallin would be so jealous. He loves to water ski and hasn't gone for a long time.
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