weekend fun

Yesterday we were invited out to the lake for a great bbq. One of the staff anesthetists (I'm not even sure if I'm spelling that correctly!) lives out there, and hosts this event every year. Sydney Crosby's summer place is across the street – this is me in front of it.


The weather was sunny but with a cool breeze, which is why we're wearing hoodies in most of these pictures. (I have learned a lesson about outdoor activities out here: it is always colder than you think, and you can NEVER bring enough layers.) The water was really warm though, perfect for jumping on the water trampoline, or going on the sea-doo, or waterskiiing, or wake surfing (yep, there were a lot of water toys, plus a hot tub, a putting green, a tennis court, and many outdoor speakers disguised as rocks). Here's Steve wakeboarding behind the zodiac on his surf board. He's got his booties on for grip, and it worked perfectly.

A late afternoon squall ended the party, so we took off to Lawrencetown in hopes of finding those 5 star waves. This turned out to be a less than stellar excursion.

We got ahead of the storm, and arrive at Lawrencetown to find waves that were not five stars, but worth suiting up for. Unfortunately, about 10 minutes after Steve got in the water, the storm caught up to us, with a little more oomph than it had at the lake. It got super windy with rain pouring down sideways. I scooted up to hide in the car. While I was sitting in there (this is the bad part), a bag of surfboards on top of the van beside us blew off in a gust of wind and hit our car, putting a huge dent in the front panel!!! Very uncool. The owner of the boards and the van was close by, so at least I got his phone number, and hopefully he'll pay for it.

Common sense (even to a new Nova Scotian like me) would say to tie surfboards down in a storm... They are made to catch water, and will catch air too...

Steve got out of the water pretty quick after that incident, due to needles of rain on his face and ice cream headaches from the water, and then we watched the storm blow over. Very pretty, but it would probably have been better to avoid the whole thing...