Stone Mountain Lake

Well, as much as I said that it wasn't true that "all I did in June was hang out with Raque", this post doesn't really help that... On July 4th, me, Raque, John, and Ksenia paddled around Stone Mountain lake again.

I want to say that on that day, we had some confusion about what time to meet them, or something. Like I thought I was supposed to meet them at their house at some time, but really, we were supposed to meet at the lake at that time. Something like that.

We did, eventually get there, and this time there were no problems with the boards, and I figured out the problem with the pump, or rather with the fuses in my car.

Raque's got super fair skin, with freckles (not too common for a Brazilian) so she brought her big, awesome hat, and some long sleeves, to keep her from burning.

The rest of us relied on sunscreen and our awesome tans to keep us safe.

I also want to say that John and Ksenia were in the Carribean some time recently, prior to us going out on the lake, and both developed pretty good tans from that trip, but I'm not sure if I'm remembering that correctly.

We paddled way further up the lake than I'd ever been before, I want to say all the way to the north end.

There are some weird sculptures on either side, up there, but I didn't get photos of them.

I don't remember if it was that trip, or a different one, but there was a family out on the water, in a boat with a motor. We all questioned that, but it seemed like I'd once seen a thing where you can actually have a motor, it just has to be under 10hp or something. His said 9.9 on the side, so I'd imagine that's right. We guessed that 10hp might be a common limit, so 9.9hp motors are a thing. They were cool though, and made an effort not to crush us with their wake.

It was a beautiful day, and the company was great, so we spent a pretty long time out on the lake. As such, despite applying and reapplying sunscreen religiously, I managed to get this weird, uneven sunburn.

Great. I had a 24-hour race like 2 days later. We'll see how that goes!