Ok, here we go.  I managed to get up at 6 am but I was the only one.  Vacation mode was starting to sink in with the rest of the family.  Alice got up shortly after me and we had a very nice peaceful morning.  Since Matt did not get up early enough we are going to have to scrap golf for this morning.  I need to get started on the Tile job today. 

Everyone was up by 9ish and we needed to go to the hardware store and meet Alice's brother so we could get the stuff we needed for the tile job.  We got our bucket, sponges and grouting tool and headed back to get started. 

Well as with any home project or any construction job for that matter, we ran into our first glitch.  The adhesive that Alice's brother had was for doing floors and not walls, so we are going to have to make another trip to the hardware store to get what is called mastic.(super sticky,heavy duty glue) 

We managed to get some but it was in a very unique package.  I was used to getting it in a 5 gallon bucket.  This came in a over sized tube like tooth paste.  This was good as we would not need a 4 gallon bucket so we got 3 tubes and headed back to the cabin.  I also managed to get a really cool razor knife too. 

As I said yesterday we went to the noodle shop for lunch.  Now that lunch is over it is getting close to WAKEBOARDING time.  We got our towels and swim stuff and headed for the marina. 

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As I said yesterday the journey was a lot of fun but I am not going to repeat myself completely.  After all the fun on the water we got cleaned up and headed over to Alice's brothers for dinner.  We were having spaghetti and rice with sauce.  The rice was different and I need to remember to try it at home as it was very good with spaghetti sauce. 

After dinner we set up the video camera to watch the footage that we took on the lake. Before, during and after the kids had found a new way to make the old faithful noise of entertainment and that would be FLATULATION.  We called it the flatulation festival.  What they managed to do was take a hand pump that was used to pump up all the water toys and rafts and positioned it under their arms and between their bellies and start pumping. 

At the beginning they had us in stitches but as kids will not let things rest they beat this one into the ground.  Even at the end it was still kind of funny.  The most creative and realistic award goes to Z (11yr nephew) and the rest were not far behind (no pun intended). 

The video footage was good and everyone enjoyed seeing themselves on the water.  We got back to our cabin around 10 pm.  I did get to talk to my mom and to Bernie and everything was going ok.  Tried to watch Dennis the Mennace but only made about 20 minutes and off to bed.  Till tomorrow.