Second Boating Trip

August 26th, 2006

Today was the date of my second boating trip of the year. It sucks that I have only been out one other time, but with all the work on the weekends, driving to and from Seattle, and gas prices I have not made a lot of trips to the water. It will be nice to get out there. I have struck out on getting people to join me however. With as busy as people are and them being out of town or working I only got four people in total to go, and one would meet us down there.

I met up with Peter and Mike at Safeway. I got some breakfast/lunch foods. I went to my truck and got it cleaned out then I got the boat filled up with gas. Mike, Peter, and I rode down in my truck, but with the back seat so full they ended up riding in the front seat with me.

We launched the boat and it did the thing where it did not want to turn over at all. Then after a tiny bit it turned over and started quickly. We got out there and did some cruising. We were waiting for Dearth Jr to make it out to the river. I hear he is quite a stud on the water.

About an hour after we got there he showed up. We went out and he started the knee-boarding. Dearth got up in the first try. Then Mike went out. We tried to get Peter up but we were never able to get him out of the water.

Later Dearth tried to use the knee board like a wakeboard. He got up and then rode it for a bit, finally he went down to his knees and rode it some more. He was only with us for a tiny bit then he had to get going. We got Mike on the skis a little bit. Peter went on the tube.

I drove around following the birds trying to tail them. But most of the actually flew faster than I could drive.

We left around four-thirty. Got the boat trailered and driven to Pullman. There was this car going hella slow all the way up the grade and on the Wawawai road. I passed it up and left it in the dust.

I also had a voicemail waiting for me on my phone. Chuck said that we were going to do some Rescue training at five. I called and let him know I would be there for that.

I got home and cleaned up. Then I went to the station. There were three guys on OT today so they had a big meal down at the Deuce and invited the reserves to join them. Walker, Parrish, and I went to Dissmore’s and got some stuff for the BBQ that was going on. When we got back to the station I backed the Rescue and went to put the chaulk out. I found it was missing. I told Walker that we needed to get some Chocolate-Peanut Butter ice cream. He said we were not going back to the store. I said yes we are… we have to get the chaulk.

We got the chaulk and he got some ice cream. Shortly after our return to the station we ate. It was very filling and very good. The families were also invited down. It was a nice meal.

I was on Rescue for the rest of the evening. We had a couple calls, but nothing too major as the night went on. I went to my office and made a CD for the Rescue. One song was C’Mon C’Mon from the soundtrack for Rescue Me. So when we got a call around two in the morning we drove out of the station with C’Mon C’Mon playing. Walker and Bien loved it.

After the call we went to, it was a non-transport. We got called around the corner to another person. Rescue was first on scene. We transported. That was pretty much it for our night. It was not too busy of a night.


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