Santa came early!

Well, we found some pretty good stuff at this afternoon on our little jaunt to Beloit. After a little mishap where the seller forgot we were coming*, we saw the stuff**, wrangled a little, and were off.

*It was actually kind of nice that he forgot as it gave us 20 minutes to go to the local Culver's and share a burger, fries, and cup of Joe.

**We saw the stuff in his garage. With the double door open. While the temperature was around 10 degrees. It was kind of hard to picture myself actually using the stuff when it was that cold.***

***On our way down we saw the first ice fishing hut of the year ... crazyness, the lake wasn't even nearly all the way frozen. I guess some people ... not me ... just HAVE to fish.

I found interesting the combination of activities that we undertook this afternoon on our mini-date. Prior to going down to Beliot, we stopped off at Kohls to find a good winter jacket, snow boots, and a winter hat for me. Nice, right?

Here's some pix:

Emma trying out the pair of skis we bought.

Tim on the wakeboard.

Some of the "other" stuff (buoys, adult life jackets)

Here's a group picture.

The big ticket items were a slalom ski, a pair of skis, and a wakeboard. We also got 6 orange life jackets, a fitted infant life jacket, a fitted adult life jacket, a ski rope, and some buoys. All in all, 90% of what we need to get started!!