Has your boat ever gone for a ride on its own?

Well how do I begin???

Since I am now just starting to blog even though I created my account awhile back i will have to catch everyone up to speed! Ray and I have been living on the lake for awhile now but just recently bought a BRAND NEW BOAT!! So this happened on July 31, 2009 that we bought this lovely 2009 Yamaha 212X jet wakeboarding boat. We took it out that first weekend, but last weekend our schedules did not allow us to.

So nautrally we were very anxious to take it out this weekend. My friend Melissa was in town from college station where she is about to start grad school, so proud of her! Anyways, she wanted to go out with us. We planned for Friday evening to launch the boat at least so it would be waiting on the dock when we woke on Sat. Well Ray had to work till about 2 pm on Saturday, but as soon as he pulled in we jumped in the boat. Well Ray had to get his swim trunks on =)

We went out and played with our dogs! We had so much FUN! Sunday we planned on going out but Ray ended up working the entire day, so no bueno =( The water at our lake is getting shallower by the minute and we were afraid that the boat would be beached if we didnt move it away from the dock onto our bouy that Mr. Glasscock spend part of last weekend building. So of course we moved it and every so often would check on it. Well besides that fact that we have to get up every hour normally for Ray's work phone calls; our dog was sick and needed to go out all through the night. About 2 am Raymond comes in wakes me in a desperate voice like someone had been murdered and said " The boat is gone". I turned over and said "You know that is not even funny, you shouldn't joke about that; especially when I am trying to sleep". Ray, "No honey Im not joking its not there or my eyes are playing tricks on me. Maybe I cant see well out there can you come see for yourself"? So I get up walk to the back doors and look for the covered boat which can be camo with that gray cover on it. I kept looking and looking and realized there wasn't even the bouy out there either. Crystal, "Oh my gosh, someone took our boat, but who would steal a boat after midnight?"

Ray, "Get a flashlight and come out and lets go look for it. Maybe it got loose and drifted down the shore." Crystal, " If we can hardly see if its missing from our dock how are we going to see if it drifted across or down the lake? OK Im coming." I agreed because 1. I was in shock and sadened by the disappearess 2. Starting to have my regret of buying a boat come back ( I have very bad buyers remorse when we purchase anything) 3. My husband had lost his 3rd child and was about to kill himself trying to find it, so why not join him.

So we spend an hour looking, finally decided to notify the sheriff in case someone called in for a boat. Yeah right finder keepers and very lucky keepers! Stayed up the rest of the night comforting my hubby and trying to tell him that we could not do anything untill daylight aproached. About 6:30 am it finally got bright enough and we went out again to look still no sign. He went next door to ask the neighbor to jet ski him around to look, while I kept looking. Sure enough we saw our Boat on the opposite side down aways in between 2 docks. My hubby road over and retrieved the boat. We tied it up for now until we can get a better look at it.

I hate to say it but I believe we are very lucky. So far as we can tell there is no big damage which I thought was going to happen since I am sure it crashed into docks and whatever else along its joy ride. God truly was looking out for us and it him who strenghthens me!

All I have to say is at least if were a child I could say "Don't run off like that without telling us (your parents), you could have gotten lost or stolen." But how do you tell that to a Boat?

All Ray said before he finally left the house before me was I told you we needed to name the Boat, bad things will happen if you don't! Guess we have to start naming!