House Boat Trip to Billy Chinook

During the third week of August we went on our last big trip of the summer. We were lucky enought to stay on a houseboat for Trent's work. It is a marketing trip or at least that is what Trent and Glen (marketing director for SD Deacon) say so that they can do this every year. They did have 3 business associates and their families come. The Belden family, our friends from soccer and school, were in Sunriver which was nearby so they came for one day also. With all 5 or 6 families it was cozy but fun. This houseboat was one of the newer ones and it is beautiful. There are 5 bedrooms and 2 baths. It is 2 stories high and has a hot tub on the top and a fun and fast slide. We brought our boat and there was another boat and 2 wave runners thanks to 2 other families. The weather was windy and a little cool but that didn't stop anyone from having fun. One day it lightly rained and the kids were still playing in the water. I even got in the water in the rain because I promised Tucker I would swim with him that day. We made a deal that if he went down the slide I would go down the slide and swim with him to this barge a short distance away. The kids would play in the water and then come and warm up in the hot tub and then go and play in the water again. It was movie night every night and they also played a lots of games. The kids had so much fun and look forward to this trip every year. I have lots of great pictures of the kids going off the slide and on the wave runners. One day we rented one of the party barges so that we get a water trampoline and the kids loved that. Trent gave the kids a pretty good ride on the wave runners. I agreed to let Trent pull my friend and I on the tube behind the wave runner because I didn't think that he could give us a very wild ride and boy was I wrong. He didn't dump us from the tube but he whipped us around pretty good.