family vacation

we spent this weekend with 18 of joe's best friends on the 4th annual "family vacation". every year since they graduated, the group has gotten together for a september weekend at a lake in either n.c. or s.c.
the "family" rents a house to sleep everyone and just spends the weekend hanging on to the last few days of summer.


the group now has people traveling from as far as alabama and ohio, multiplying each year with another significant other or two joining the crowd (i was a new addition this year!) this year, we went to lake norman and had a fabulous time.

this was the view from our back deck:

i had my first (unsuccessful) attempts at wake boarding. i unfortunately don't have pictures of my repeated face plants, but you get the picture.

we spent all of our time watching football, playing games, and having a 4 hour long one-for-the-books dance party (which obviously included Hava Nagila. necessary.) needless to say, we are already looking forward to next year!

and i'm in desperate need for a vacation from the the vacation. exhausted but it was worth every spastic dance move =)