Soooooo this happened...

Sadly this was all the pictures I got,  When we got down in the water, all the sudden things got really crazy and there was no way I could be taking pictures.  After it was all over though,we were all wishing someone had captured this fiasco for Americas funniest videos!

It started out the perfect day...Sun was shining and it was nice and warm. Kelley and Dan brought the boat over into the back yard so we could get it cleaned up and ready to take up on the lake.  I patched a few spots on the covers that had ripped over the winter.  Kelley power washed the outside and sprayed for bugs and I cleaned the inside, windows, bathroom, seats, counters and vacuumed. Dan got it all registered and ready to go.

We didn't get a very early start and by the time we met up with Dan and Brenda, hooked the boat to his truck and pulled it to the lake (it's a pretty tough pull up the canyon) it was probably about 10:30. When we pulled in to the parking lot, it was packed!  Ha!  I don't know what we were thinking going on a holiday weekend! It was a little windy up in the parking lot and there was a storm forecast for later but we weren't too worried about it. We waited our turn to back the boat down to the water and when the boat was off the trailer, Brenda and I held on to it while Kelley got it tied up.  We waited while Dan took the trailer back up to park it and noticed that the wind was really picking up. There were also a lot of boats coming back in to the dock.

When Dan got back, we wanted to get away from the crowded dock and out on to the lake so we undid the ropes and Dan started backing up.  As soon as we started moving backwards, the wind got hold of the boat and within about 5 seconds, we were flying towards another boat that was docked on the side.  We hollered for Dan to go the forward and he tried, but then we were headed straight for another boat that had just pulled in to the dock. So we were hollering to go the other way and Dan was really doing everything he could to keep us from hitting one boat or the other.  We really had no control at all though, so Kelley hollered to just turn the engine off and he would try to wrangle the boat from in the water.  He had already been in up to his knees launching the boat but now he was full on in the water and it was freaky cold.  Like numbing cold.  Anyway, next thing we knew, the boat had slammed into the rocks and cement there on the side of the dock.  We just all looked at each other like we could't believe what had just happened!  We couldn't even believe that we hadn't hit any of the boats parked around us!  We had seriously come sooo close!  Like inches away!  People all around us were trying to help us and we pulled the boat out of the rocks with ropes and got it tied to the dock.  By this time, there were tons of boats heading for the dock.  The wind was blowing everyone all over the place and all anyone wanted to do was get their boats out of the water.

Kelley was in the water helping other boats get on their trailers while we were trying to figure how we were going to get our boat turned around to take back out of the water. We decided we'd have to just pull the boat around the dock with ropes till it was in the position for the trailer to back down to it.  Dan ran up to the parking lot and got the trailer while Kelley helped about 10 other people get their boats  on their trailers and Brenda and I held our boat from slamming in to the dock.  It was intense! 

Even with the guys pushing the boat onto the trailer by hand, it was hard to get it on right.  The wind just  pushed the boat where ever it wanted! I felt so bad for Kelley and Dan.  They were both so wet, cold and exhausted.  

We were bummed that we didn't get out on the lake but mostly just really grateful we could get safely out of the water and didn't crash into any other boats.  The more we thought and talked about it, we realized how blessed and protected we had been.  Kind of left us in awe and in a quiet gratitude the rest of the day.