Beachin' It!

Today we went for our nearly daily ritual of swimming.  It was a full out affair today with multiple air/foam mattresses, towels, fins, and even a little bit of snacks.  The last item was particularly fun for me seeing how I was quite starving after all the rafting around.
Let me explain.  My sisters' idea for today was to do synchronized back flips off of the air mattresses they brought.  Unfortunetly, when that turned out to be a near failure (the mattresses mostly sank) they decided that logs were the new way of doing it.  Just to make sure you all know, the mattresses did not sink because my sisters are particularly overweight (because they're not) but because they just weren't buoyant enough.  Anyway, they commandeered me into helping them build/carry a raft into the water.  We used boards that had nails already in them and used a fist-sized rock to slowly pound the nails into the somewhat punky logs.  After three pairs of now raw hands pounded away we got a little makeshift raft together.  Now was the time to test it.

The four of us cautiously clambered onto the raft as it sank with each new foot.  We quickly decided that it would be a better idea if we didn't all go on it.  Our ranks were reduced to three as we set out.  The raft quickly fell apart.  The idea of a raft was beached.  The flotilla was reduced to one sturdy log that resembled a surfboard.  The synchronized back flips never were completed.  The 'surfboard' log held only two of us and wasn't really stable enough for two of us to do anything but barely manage to stay above water.  I guess the Bekkers wasn't meant for synchronized back flips.  Windsurfing however is a different story.  Any one want to trade some wind for another post?