So this past weekend I took a trip with the UNSW Waterski and Wakeboard club up to Cliftonville Lodge which is about an hour North of Sydney. The plan was to leave from Sydney at 8am on Saturday and be on the river all weekend. So I of course overslept and forgot to pack flip flops (thongs in australia) but that's not important. Barely made it to McDonalds where we were meeting but I did thankfully otherwise I wouldn't be writing about it haha.
I jumped in the car with the president of the club so obviously we were the first ones there and I got to help take the first boat out. I wasn't too sure what to expect (which seems to be the case a lot of the time here) but once we got both boats out onto the river we all signed up and took turns taking runs. We also set up a trampoline by the water which was fun. I honestly think I was the only water skier since most people went wake boarding. It was such a great time though. Water was a little cold but we had two beautiful days and I got some good runs in. The second time I went I attempted to wakeboard for the first time. Five or six failed attempts later I was pretty frustrated but I wanted to get my runs in so I decided to postpone getting up on a wakeboard until over the summer.
Once it got a little bit colder and we were done for the day we went up to our cabins that we were staying in which were actually pretty nice. Cody and I were given the task of trying to set up this really old inflatable hot tub, and actually found an email from the club to the manufacturer saying that the hot tub was shocking people. So we kind of gave up on that haha. I go the the University of New South Wales but the University of Sydney waterski club was also there, and we knew one of the guys that was there so we ended up staying in a cabin with him. Had a huge cookout to end the night and enjoyed getting to know a few Australians and a bunch of other nationalities too. France, Norway, Netherlands, Singapore (wherever that is, not really helping the ignorant American stereotype) to name a few. Got a bunch of compliments on how good the chicken Cody and I grilled was too.
The next day we woke up around 9 and cleaned up the cabins, had a light breakfast and headed back down to the river for another awesome day. For the first time ever I tried to drop a ski and slalom which was so cool but I fell both times. Went a little bit farther the second time. I'm really pumped to get out onto the lake this summer. Once we got all our runs in we packed up the boats and headed back to Sydney. It's always pretty amazing to drive across the Sydney harbor bridge. Got back and went to the movies to see the Avengers for an overall awesome weekend.
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