Jet Skiing

Today we ventured away from the city to enjoy some time in the great outdoors. It's a little hot to go hiking around in the mountains, so we opted for a water adventure. We headed to Lake Mead and rented 2 jet skis.
The water was surprisingly cool (not much over 70 degrees), but it felt great since the temperatures were in the 100's by 10 am! We got a unique view of the Hoover Dam by riding right up to it on our jet skis.

The disposable water camera didn't take the quality of pictures that we're used to. The colors were so much more vivid than you'll see in these pictures. It was a beautiful day to be out on the lake.

After an hour or so of riding, Audria and I laid on the "beach" (it was dry land, but it wasn't much of a beach...it was rocks with millions of sea shells clinging to them...not the most comfortable place to lay) while the guys drove the jet skis. Mike's in the picture below.

Staci & Audria on the "beach"

If you have to pee when you're at the lake...what do you do? I'd hazard to guess that 99% of you would jump into the water and take care of business. Maybe that's why this discovery had us almost falling off our jet skis with laughter! There was actually a port-a-potty floating in one of the coves on Lake Mead!

The wind started picking up and the waves were getting bigger (meaning it was much tougher to ride a jet ski across the lake) so we headed back to the marina. We were exhausted after a few hours of riding, so we headed back to Boulder City to eat lunch in a park that we passed on Saturday.

Proof of the intense heat of Nevada. Have you ever applied peanut butter to your bread without a knife? We didn't have to use one. We just poured the peanut butter onto the bread and rubbed the two pieces of bread together!

Even though it was hot outside, the breeze and the shade made for a very comfortable lunch in the park. It was so nice that we decided to take a little siesta before heading back to the hotel.