Archive for August, 2011
Orlando Bingles’ 2011 Summer Road Trip – Day 9 & 10
by Bingle on Aug.22, 2011, under Richard Bingle Family
Our last two days at the cabin were spent pretty much the same way our first two full days were spent – boardgames, foosball, and playing in the water. We even held our own 1v1 and 2v2 foosball tournaments (with every possible combination of teams), complete with the ball flying clear across the room on occasion. We realized that while we had taken lots of pictures down at the lake and some of inside the cabin, we really hadn’t taken any pictures of the outside of the cabin, so Amber walked down the hill and took a bunch of pictures.
We also started packing up as we would be leaving very early in the morning on Day 12 so that we could get to Mammoth Cave in time for the tour that we had booked.
Orlando Bingles’ 2011 Summer Road Trip – Day 8
by Bingle on Aug.20, 2011, under Richard Bingle Family
We spent most of Day 8 of our trip tubing on Douglas Lake. While we would have preferred something a little sportier with more speed, the only affordable boat we could find to rent was a somewhat underpowered pontoon boat, but that didn’t stop us from having a blast.
We drove the van to a nearby marina where we rented the boat and then took the boat back to the cabin we were staying at to pick up the tube and some drinks. It would have been a bit easier if our dock had still been floating instead of sitting at an odd angle on the shore due to the receding lake, but we managed. We headed out of the cove on which our cabin was located back out into the open area of the main lake and got the tube all set up to tow.
We started out with the three girls on the tube and they quickly got comfortable and were soon sitting up and showing off by not holding on. While the boat lacked power, it was still possible to send one or more of the girls sailing off into the water through abrupt changes in speed and direction of the boat.
We spent the next several hours taking turns on the tube. Since Ashley had gotten her driver’s license over the summer even she took a turn driving the boat. We stopped briefly back at the marina once during the day to fill up on fuel and then headed right back out onto the lake, searching for every wave and wake we could find, or creating and crossing our own wake.
On our eventual return to the cabin we were pretty worn out so we played a game and went to bed a little early.
Orlando Bingles’ 2011 Summer Road Trip – Day 6 & 7
by Bingle on Aug.18, 2011, under Richard Bingle Family
The next two days of our trip were spent primarily playing boardgames and foosball in the cabin and playing in the waters of Douglas Lake and in general just relaxing.
We had brought several boardgames along on the trip including Alhambra and Pit, but Ticket to Ride probably got the most plays of them all. While the picnic table styled benches weren’t the most comfortable, we did have a nice view out the large windows while we were playing.
The basement of the cabin sported both a smallish pool table and a nice foosball table, but the foosball table saw a whole lot more action than the pool table. There is something satisfying about spinning the foosball handles as fast as possible and the sound of the ball ricocheting off of the walls and the ding as someone scores a goal.
Lake-wise, our time was spent floating on and jumping from a large towable tube that we’d bought for the trip. Karen spent most of her time paddling around in a small blow-up boat that we had last used on Lake Mead. Since the GoPro‘s case makes it waterproof we took a lot of video and stills of us in and on the water.
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