New Toy

We bought a boat! We’ve wanted to get one for a while, and decided that this was the year to do it. We started looking on KSL.com last month. Nate went to look at quite a few different boats, but we were having a hard time finding one that was right for us (small enough for our van to tow but with enough power to pull most any skier . . . and with seat cushions that didn’t bug me). We found a couple that we thought would be great, but they sold super fast. Checking for new listings became an obsession, just so we wouldn’t miss the next great deal. We probably looked three or four times an hour every day for a week. In the end, our obsession paid off. We found a sweet deal on a perfect boat for our family. It was great to finally be the first ones to answer an ad so we could have first dibs.


Nate drove to Lehi to pick it up on Monday morning. It turned out to be a bit of an adventure to get it here. We wanted to take it to a marine shop to get it checked out before we bought it. On the way to the shop, the trailer got a flat tire. On the freeway. In a construction zone. Nate barely made it to the exit before the rim hit the ground. He had forgotten to take our lug wrench and the man at Chevron didn’t have one, so Nate started going door to door to borrow a lug wrench. He ended up getting one from a nice, almost blind, old man that was mowing his lawn. That, and seven other delays, turned it into an all day process, but by the end of the day we had a boat. We’ve been cleaning it up and buying some fun new accessories to get it ready for the summer. Hopefully the weather will be warm enough this week that we can take it out for a ride.