For many people Memorial Day weekend is the first weekend of summer (even though summer doesn't officially start until June 20th...) but this year I kicked off my summer early with an amazing trip to Lake Havasu City, AZ. Myself and six others made the 4+ hour trip from LA across the CA state line to spend an amazing weekend at Lake Havasu on the Colorado River. We spent the majority of the weekend out on the boat maximizing our time in the sun. And word of advice to any of you lake/river go-ers out there... If you wanna make friends real quick, bring a floating beer pong table =)
Here's the photo evidence of our fabulous weekend on the water.
Floating bp =) so much fun
Day 2
In-N-Out For Lunch =)
I know I already used this pic but it's definitely one of my favorites.
My only cute pic of Day 3. The rest of the pics from this day are all from tubing.
We've got literally 150+ pictures from this weekend. Most of those pictures are far sillier than these posed pictures I'm sharing with you all (see an example below) but let's just say that it was too much fun and I really hope I get the chance to repeat it before I move to Ohio!
Beer pong. Picking the perfect song. Blowing the whistle. Dancing on the beach.
This past weekend I made the
drive (once again) down to Southern California to visit Lake Havasu City, AZ
for the weekend. After taking off a bit early from work, I hopped in my car and
proceeded down the all too familiar 99. Three-ish hours later I was back at the
good old HOP (house of pi for those non-adpis). The short visit included
catching up with my former roommate, the wonderful Katie Schaller. We took a
long overdue trip to Yogurtland to tell stories of our summers, and talk about
current sorority drama. Sadly the house was relatively empty so other than
Katie, Leanne and a few others I didn’t get to see too many girls.
Around 6 I set off towards Rancho
Cucamonga to meet up with Karissa, Conrad, and the rest of our Havasu crew for
the weekend. A drive that was supposed to take one hour of course took two due
to the fabulous LA rush hour traffic. About four hours and one Sonic-drive thru
stop later we arrived in Lake Havasu City, AZ and proceeded off to bed to rest
up before our big Saturday.
gotta love that LA traffic
Saturday, saw us getting to the
lake around 10am, cruising through the already semi-full channel, under the
original London Bridge, and of course documenting the whole thing with multiple
photos. We opened up our respective drinks (we were extremely excited about the
random purchase of the drink I named “mojito in a bag”… creative, I know…) and
proceeded further out on to the lake to do some water skiing.
all the girls
Karissa and I in front of the London Bridge
Unfortunately that was cut short as an unfortunate run in between the boat engine and the rope occurred, causing Conrad and Karissa to spend at least an hour cutting the rope out of the engine. =(
torn up rope
Once that was all fixed though,
we were on our way once again, and this time we headed over the Naked Turtle to
get some lunch and some more drinks. Luckily, we were able to catch a bit of
the UCLA/Texas football game while at the bar waiting for our drinks. Those
around us probably thought we were a bit obnoxious as we cheered loudly for our
Bruins despite Texas’ comfortable lead.
mojito in a bag.. duh
After some lunch and the purchase
of two bucket sized drinks to share amongst the crew we headed back out on the
water to do some tubing. Conrad had fun driving the boat (and trying to throw
us off) while we each took our turn hanging on for dear life. When I went by
myself on the tube I got some serious air flying over those wakes (or at least that’s
how it felt), and I am proud of the bruise on my hip from my epic crash as I
finally let go of the tube and flipped off the raft.
bucket-o-drink
Once we exhausted ourselves
tubing, we headed back in to where KFROG was hosting a free country concert on
the lake. We anchored the boat, busted out the pool noodles and floated in the
water, enjoying a beer and the music of Craig Morgan (red neck yacht club
anyone?) As the sun went down and the music came to an end, we blasted my iPod
and dance partied our way back to the dock.
Sadly, due to the long drive back
to Rancho and my even longer drive back to Fresno we didn’t have time to go out
on the water again on Sunday, but we did have a delicious lunch at a Mexican restaurant
near the lake before we took off. About 8 hours later I was back in Fresno and
sufficiently exhausted from an awesome weekend. Definitely can’t wait for the
next trip (even though it probably won’t be until next summer)!
crappy iphone video of Craig Morgan's Redneck Yacht Club. best part... the random girls yelling "TRAILER PARK" not quite at the same time as Mr. Morgan...
