We let each of our children bring a friend for this trip.

The houseboat itself was awesome! It had six bedrooms each with its own sink and mirror, two sleeper sofas, two bathrooms (one with shower), a kitchen with refrigerator, stove, coffee maker, oven, microwave oven, table service and utensils, a family room with TV and DVD player, clothes dryer, breakfast nook, front patio with gas grill, eight-person hot tub, sun deck with six chaise lounges, fifteen-person hot tub, wet bar, two water slides, a satellite radio system/CD player, covered fly bridge, GPS navigation, two diesel engines, generator and air conditioning!

Each evening we had family fun time and each "pair" took turns organizing the activities (such as playing Apples to Apples, Monopoly, SPOONS, Mafia/Sheriff/Doctor, Outburst and watching the movie Cars). Also during the trip, we did some geocaching (kind of like a GPS treasure hunt) and visited several different sites, one of which was only accessible via water.

The whole trip was awesome and we had no rain, fights or injuries. Unfortunately, the boat did have one of its engines die which cost us some of cruising time.

The long drive is over. We're here!	State docks.....which boat is ours?	Gear loaded onto the carts to take to our boat	Is this our boat? Man, it's huge!
Provisioning the boat	And we're off!	Awesome kitchen!	Laura cooks her wieners
"I wish I had brought the Velveeta with me."	Head first down the slide	Style and grace......	A hot tub moment.....this is why we earn money!
Securing the anchoring line to a tree stump	Tied up for the evening	Laura and Mike hunt for crayfish	Captain Sean at the helm
Karen and Anne launch their "Message in a Bottle"	Heading for our first geocache - see the skull in the rock face?	Cache found! Team must now swim back to the boat.	Team back on board; John brings back a Hummer from the cache!
Engine is dead and mechanic cannot bring it back to life	Anne cooking sloppy joes in the kitchen	Angler Sean catches tomorrow night's entree	Power tanning on the upper deck
John playing xBox Monopoly	Terry working on her scrap book as we cruise the lake	Captain John steering from the fly bridge	Combs crew poise for a picture; who's at the helm???
Chief John flipping the burgers; possible future career?	Sean takes the DDR challenge	Another geocache found!	Geocachers swim back to the boat; Sean keeps the GPS dry
Jumping off the boat from the top deck	Steak and shrimp night	Playing a hot game of Scrabble	Day is done, gone the sun, from the lake to the hills to the sky