July 4th Riding the Banana Boat

On Friday afternoon, July 4th, John and I left the girls with Katrina and Christian, and headed to the Isle of Palms Marina to meet up with my Dad and Marna's group. After a little bit, Marna and all the young girls headed out for the first session, which was suppose to be the slow ride. During the 45 mins they were gone, the boys and I visited. It had really heated up a lot that day, so we stayed under the awning some and went out on the dock some. When the girls got back, they said they had a great time. Once they unloaded, we all put on our life jackets and hopped on. We took it slow on our way out until we got out of the no wake zone. It was really pretty and we enjoyed the sites. Then we sped up since we were in the fast group. It was not nearly as fast as I was expecting, but it was tons of fun. John was in front, followed by Mason, Jim, Daddy, and I brought up the rear. After a short ways, John attempted to make us capsize and ended up being the only one off the float. It was pretty funny!!! After we picked him back up, we took off. Soon, we all capsized thanks to John. It was actually a lot of fun and since it was obvious we were capsizing, I took a dive off. It turned out Mason was scared to be in the water and ended up crawling up on the back side of the raft so fast, we could not believe it. Everyone, including Mason, enjoyed a good laugh before starting back. The water was nice, and it was nice to be wet on such a hot day. During the rest of the ride we capsized two more times while in the fast part (always on purpose) and had a tone of fun. After that Mason was acting scared so the guys did not try to flip us any more. Then once we got back to the no wake zone and were going very slow, Jim flipped us. It caught me off guard, but it was fun to get in again. The driver just laughed since we had been going in so much. After that we made the trip back to the dock after about a 45 minute trip and unloaded.

Here is a short video of the adventure =)