Sand Hollow Boating Trip

Last weekend our friends, the Buells, invited us out to Sand Hollow on their boat. I was a little nervous due to the fact that I have some major motion sickness issues, but thought it sounded fun and wanted to try it out anyway. They are a fun family and we love doing things with them. They came and got us Saturday morning at approx. 9 am. We went out to Sand Hollow and off we went. I did take an anti-nausea pill before we lift and sprayed us all with sunscreen. When we got out there we did some swimming while they got the knee board ready for their son. We hadn't been out yet this year so Brax was once again nervous about swimming with his life jacket. Brandon B. tied him to a rope and lowered him down into the water to ease his fear and it really helped. After that their boy went knee boarding and then Abbie. Branden decided to try it and did pretty well for a first timer. Brax was flipping out that his dad was out there though. He kept crying and saying get my dad back in the boat. I'm not quite sure why that was though. I'd finally decided to try until Brax started crying. Who knows? After that Brandon B. went out on the knee board for a little. Brax really wanted to fish after that so everyone got the poles out and baited them with worms. I was starting to get a little sick to my stomach so I jumped in the water and swam/treaded while they fished for an hour and a half. Brax ended up catching 7 fish and I think the Buell children caught 6 as well. They were all having a good time. We then drove in closer to the center island. Abbie and I took the three kids into shore and I took them to our favorite cliff jumping spot. We did some rock climbing to get our way across to the cliff. Their son and I jumped while Abbie and her daughter, as well as Brax watched and jumped off some rocks. We swam back to the boat after a while and then all they guys except Brax swam out and went jumping. It started to get windy so we all got back in the boat and headed back to shore. It was a lot of fun and I'm sure glad we went. I didn't reapply sunscreen though so my face is fried. For some reason, everyone else was okay. Thanks again Buells for a wonderful day on the water.

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