Saturday morning at Callaway Gardens

When we read that the annual worldwide waterski and wakeboard competitions were held at our very own Robin Lake every Memorial Day weekend, we planned to attend. We got up early, packed a cooler full of food and drinks and drove to the Lake just as the 8:00am junior ladies and mens competitions were starting. They were incredible. We sat in our beach chairs a few feet from the water and watched in awe as skiers and wakeboarders flew past us twirling in the air, going off jumps, doing 960's?!, holding the rope with their feet, balancing with one foot and doing a pretty speedy slalom course. Everything was impressive. (Double click on the photos to see them up close and personal!)
The kids ooohed and aaahed for awhile but were more excited about sand and water. We brought the beach toys and they had fun digging and building for quite awhile. We thought being there from 8am to 10am wouldn't warrant bathing suits but we were completely wrong. We even brought sweatshirts just in case... what were we thinking? At 8:30 it was a beautiful and completely warm enough for bathing suits. ...bathing suits or not the kids happily splashed in the water (or sat right down in it) and had a great time.