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Monday, August 02, 2004 

A WEEKEND AT THE LAKE

Mike (reminiscing about a girl he hooked up with after a few drinks): When I looked at her face I thought 'holy crap I'm making out with E.T.'

I went to my friend Darcy's cabin at Norman Lake (located southwest of Prince George off Hwy. 16 to Vanderhoof) this weekend, and boy was it worth it. I hadn't done much relaxing this summer but out at his cabin I was able to do that, and drink a lot of beer while I was at it.

There were probably about 20 people there throughout the two days. We had a lot to talk about since a few of them I've known since kindergarten (the Foothills boys). When I wasn't drinking, I went wakeboarding, kneeboarding and tubing. I went wakeboarding for my first time today, it was so fun. Being a snowboarder already helped. It didn't take me long to catch on. Kneeboarding was also great. We had two people once and three the other time. I just spent my time doing 360s and spraying my friends with water.

Dave: We should rename this lake Beer Lake.

There is a reason why he said that and it isn't because we like to get loaded when we're there. It's deeper than that.
On Saturday night, Dave and my other friend Dusty, having consumed a few wobbly pops that night, decided to take out the canoe. They took a while to come back, but when they did, it wasn't in the canoe. It was in a boat. They apparently tipped the canoe, had to get picked up, and lost all their beer. The next morning, I joined them in Darcy's boat on a cruise to see if the beer was there. We found them, all 13 of them floating in the water, so we picked them up and drank them. Ah yes, gotta love the aluminum cans. What a savior.

Dave clearly drank the most out of any of us on the weekend. But it caught up with him. On Sunday at 2:30 p.m. he passed out, beer in hand, in the middle of a conversation. He was okay; he took a six hour sleep that evening.

I got home an hour and a half ago, ready to relax and stay out of the heat for a while. But what a weekend, filled with moments I won't soon forget.


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  • I'm Al
  • From Williams Lake, B.C., Canada
  • I'm a 24-year-old sports reporter working at the Williams Lake Tribune, having graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism Degree from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops in June 2005. My hometown is Prince George.
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