That is what it took to write this post... not really, but it has been along time coming. Here's a look back at some the best pictures from 2008. My photo blogging took a bit of nose dive last year after June 1st due to the lakes closing in Madison. When you drive 45 minutes to practice and don't get home till 10pm or so, you just don't have that much spare time. The camera was still busy, so here's a look back.
As those that follow the site know, my ski season started early in 2008. January 26th to be exact. I went south to get some skiing in, but not very far. Just a mere 30 minutes. The ski site looked like this...
And the water was cold...
But it wasa fun...
The the skiing too a hiatus for a few months. It took till the beginning of May before we back on the water...
But it has to complain when your nights on the water end like this...
A week later, the Best Dam Barefoot Race took place. It was a little cooler this year, but still a whole lot of fun.
As May wound down, we had some very nice weather, which we made good use of...
Then, the rain hit, and it hit hard...
Leaving us with this...
And this....
So Mad-City headed about 45 minutes north, to Lake Wisco, to practice. One of the nice things about that is we had nights that looked like this at the end of the night...
And this...
And resulted in fun practices like this...
My boat also made a few trips to Lake Wisconsin too. One of the better trips was on July 4th. It took phone calls until 1am the night before to finalize the plans, but they were finalized and we skied on some nice water in some great scenary.
When State arrived, the rain made another cameo appearance...
But it didn't stick around too long...
And it was still a whole lot of fun...
And we put on one hell of a good show...
Resulting in this...
The following week we did a road show in Portage, so I had a chance to do doubles again...
And then the next week we did yet another road show, this time on Lake Michigan. Unfortunately, there were 4 foot rollers there to great us...
Finally, Nationals arrived. After a season of driving, late practices and little sleep, our Nationals show went very well...
And after our show, we hit "The Bar"...
Our efforts were rewarded...
After Nationals, the Madison lakes slowly reopened, so then we just had some fun....
And more fun...
And occasionally, we needed supplies delivered...
So the nights would end like this...
But then we'd go out again the next night...
I did get to hit the ramp a little...
And the water...
Finally, fall arrived, and the last trip out on the lake...
Then winter arrived and more nights would end like this...
So that's the 2008 in pictures.
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