Afterglow 2007 - Day 2 Sunday

After working up a sweat playing pool against his bro, Kevin needed to cool off in the big pool. As we do every year, we signed a pact saying that we would swim everyday or risk paying a fine of $5 and getting an atomic wedgie from everyone else who signed the pact. There's no way I'm paying $30 to my family and getting 6 atomic wedgies, so I'll happily oblige anytime someone wants to go out for a swim. We stood in the water with Faith so that the Moms could get a precious photo for their "Afterglow Memories" scrapbook. We then left Faith in the shallow end and swam out to the raft.

The top of the raft at Afterglow is one of my favorite places in the entire world. To this day, I really don't know why we swim out there just to sit atop a wooden structure, but I guess it's because it's so nice and peaceful out there. we've been up there for hours at a time, and usually get fully dry (including hair and swimsuits) before jumping back into the water. In the extreme instance that you would try to stop by Afterglow to say hello when we're up there, look for Kevin and I on the top of the raft. We'll probably be up there talking or making animal noises.

Home

After working so hard to stage that picture that was included at the end of day 1, I needed a man's breakfast to refuel and energize myself for the rest of the day. I didn't feel like spending the time making a true man's breakfast of eggs, sausage, bacon, pancake and orange juice (with vodka in it of course) so I settled for the next best thing - extreme nachos. I guess cold pizza and beer would have also been a suggestion, but I would have had to cook the pizza then cool it down to achieve that goal, so I stuck with nachos. My nachos rock the house, and I never need a excuse to whip up a bowl of this delightful delicacy. I sat on the end of the dock and engulfed my breakfast while I sipped a beer and enjoyed the serene morning enveloping me from all angles. After taking it all in, I went back inside to see if anyone else was awake, and I was stunned to see Faith maxing and relaxing in my reclining chair. Normally I would have gotten all Daddy Bear mad that someone was sitting in my chair, but I just can't get upset with Faith. She acts too cute and innocent (which I've been told by James and Janelle, is something that she tries to pull daily but they're too smart to fall for her ploy). I'll fall for it every time, which is alright considering I'm just her Uncle. I also wasn't upset because James brought his chair along as well, so there was always a second option should someone's rump occupy my chair. There's no sense in ever getting mad when there's a soft spot to rest your weary bones.

The weather up here is gorgeous in the summertime, so you'd think that we would try and spend all of our free time outdoors, right? Wrong. There's so many options up here both indoors and out that we have to try and do all of them in a single day or risk not doing them at all. that having been said, Gary and Kevin took the time to play a sibling rivalry filled game of billiards. I don't recall who won, so I'm not going to speculate which McKissick is the Afterglow Pool Shark.

Stacy, Stefani and Janelle had all just purchased the 7th and final book in the Harry Potter series  - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. They all intended to finish reading the 759 pages of this adventurous finale by the end of our Afterglow vacation. I put pressure on Janelle and Stacy to finish when I told them that Uncle Greg (Stacy's Dad) and I had put a monetary wager on who would finish first - Janelle or Stacy (pictured on the right). They both wanted to have the bragging rights, but I wanted the money so I encouraged them to keep reading or else.

Kevin found this little boogie board on the beach and decided to put it to good use. He used his skateboarding skills from his driveway, his knowledge from watching Bam Margera, and his time spent playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater to test his ability to replicate the same effect on water. His attempts and doing this are well documented on the videos on the ensuing pages. Faith didn't try to imitate Kevin, so she just sat on the board and boogied the only way she knew how. Everyone boogies in different ways, I only ask that people make an attempt to boogie oogie oogie till you just can't boogie no more.

Faith really took a liking to Kevin when she first met him at Afterglow last year. She started following him around and playing games with him, which was very cute. Kevin really didn't mind it at all; he was used to little kids latching on to his every move and action. Everywhere Kevin goes, kids follow him like he is the pied piper. It's not uncommon to see hundreds of children following Kevin from cabin #1 down to the lakefront. It certainly is a spectacle that rivals great migrations and mythical lemming suicides. Much like that last rumor about the lemmings, most of what I have previously said is untrue, just like most of the things I say on this site. If you haven't figured out by now, I call things as I see it, not as they happen. These comments that I make often skew or bend the truth because I feel like doing it and this is my website. I simply take creative liberties when I create my commentary to go along with the pictures. If you don't like it, too bad, deal with it.