I slept in until 9am, all the beer and rock music at the Fair must have worn me out.It was a beautiful morning so we took the ski boat out again. The Ski Ray is over twenty years old, but it’s a beast of a boat. There is a large lump in the middle, and underneath the cover is a 350 HP V8 engine, and it can go very fast! This time I managed to move out from behind the boat to the calm water beyond the wake, and then cross the wake to the calm water on the other side. The boat was going at about thirty miles an hour, so I was very chuffed with myself until I hit some bumpy water and fell on my face. My nostrils got a very rapid sluice out, but no harm was done. I think I could enjoy water skiing again, but it would need to be on the warm calm water, which isn’t available at home.
After lunch (burgers from the grill) we took the pontoon boat from Eagle Spring Lake to Lulu, for some more serious relaxing. At the entrance to Lulu was a small police boat containing two local cops. Every weekend there are two cops keeping an eye on the fifty or sixty people who go to Lulu to enjoy themselves, not a great use of police resources IMHO.
The weather was warm, the lake water was warm, and I was very relaxed. I clambered into an inflatable seat and bobbed around Lulu with a cold bottle of Corona clasped in my hand. Also, there is the bonus of being able to stay in the same place while “using the restroom” while drinking a beer.
In the evening I drove with Martin back to Clarendon Hills in his small Japanese sports car, alongside giant Mack and Peterbilt trucks on the Interstate highway, it felt a bit intimidating.
To wind down after the journey we went down to the basement and watched his giant TV. Martin likes YouTube, and he showed me some films by a guy called Colin Furze from Stamford. He builds ridiculous contraptions like rocket-powered go-carts and his own Wall of Death and tests them out himself.
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