Camp Janszen.....as we like to call it. Other people call it "going to the lake", but whatever you decide to call it it still means the same thing; boat and drink, swim and drink, or boat while you drink. My family has been going to this magnificent lake down in the south (which will remain nameless because I don't want to share this slice of heaven) for a little over 8 years. It is a place where cell phone signals are not invited and the moonlight is your guide at night for the boat ride home from the tikki bar. I have never seen my family so relaxed as they are at the lake. My dad gets to ski before the sun wakes up, my mom works on her tan (which she has the tanning genes in the family so she always looks like she from the Mediterranean area), my brother gets to flip and jump on the wake board, my sister works on her tan and blond highlights, and I enjoy the few seconds of time I work up the courage to get in the lake. There are so many Man-eating fish out there people it's only wise to swim for a brief second!
We eat lunches out at marinas and whenever dinner is decided to be fixed, mom always brings home to the lake. Time is not allowed to obtrude in our camp time, so our stomachs always tell us when we need to eat a meal. It's the best! Even on the hottest nights a dinner lakeside is better than a dinner at local diner.
Drinking...well my family doesn't get hammered beyond recognition of our own names, but we do enjoy the shenanigans we get into while drinking. Many cliff jumps, bridge jumps, balancing acts, and dock games have been a result of that hop brewed liquid goodness. Now one member of the family is not of drinking age so she competes in these events sober, which may make her the best sister ever! What sober person would agree to participating in games that make rednecks think we're rednecks!?
It's always a great time at the lake and the family forgets about work and school which makes it all the more relaxing! Everyone should visit this lake...too bad it will be a secret!
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