The Hub tries to do something big for the two sons, their wives and the grandkids every year. Always given as a family Christmas gift so they look forward to that. Well..we never expected everyone to be so excited and take so much interest in this...I mean, who knew?? There are lots of pictures to share, so this is part uno.
Here's the picture from the brochure......3 levels, 87 feet long, 8 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, full kitchen, washer/dryer, hot tub, grill, curly slide, central AC ( in order to live, of course), satellite TV, TV in every room with DVD player....sounds great, right??? I'm here to tell you it was all true...every bit of it. The boat was clean, stocked with dishes and utensils, linens...no kidding, it was amazing! We brought our own food...grill stuff, breakfast stuff and snacks...
The night before was, as it always is before we go anywhere, hectic. Seems like the kitties always know something's up and Woody was quick to let us know we couldn't put anything past him.....
The regulations in Kentucky for houseboating allow for 13 passengers on this particular boat. With sons and families the head count was 11. It was so fun to have our good friends (that went with us to Alaska a couple years ago) join us. We had to rent a big van to carry all of our stuff and we were almost full when we got to their house...
Just one picture before we leave...sheesh....notice the sunglasses on the guys and the glasses on girls' head.
We took our time getting there...2 days...and this is looking out from an overlook in Kentucky. We were getting ready to cruise Lake Cumberland and are actually in Lake Cumberland Park. Look at the trees, look at the water, look at the size of my butt...Lord, help me. Good thing this was taken from the car....
Really...how pretty is this?? Nothing at all like Central Florida!
Here's the marina...see the cars way over on the left...parked on that hill?? That's where you park and they have kids that get your stuff and load it in big rubbermaid containers on wheels. Then once you get checked in, you park your car in a special lot, get the shuttle back and the kids take your stuff to your boat.
Uh...yeah...here's our boat at the dock. Even though we had looked at pictures almost everyday for the last 3 months, I don't think any of us were really ready for this.....
Up the little stairs (to the right) to the middle deck...counter and bar, hot tub and you can see the slide...it actually begins on the next higher level. That top level is a sun deck, but only accessable by a spiral staircase, not much wider than my above mentioned butt. Since I was dealing with a broken toe (ouch!) and there was that chance that I might get stuck, I never made it to that top deck. But...it looked very nice...
In between the 4 bedrooms there were...stairs!! Yep...the other 4 bedrooms were downstairs and this is where we kept...er, I mean...let the kids sleep.
One of the bathrooms...plenty of room.
This is how most of the shoreline looked. We found out that the water was down about 50 feet. There is some big construction going on with the dam and they had to lower the water....but, even with 50 feet of water missing, the GPS/Depth Finder was still reading 100-150 feet deep!
Other houseboats on the lake all parked together. I'm guessing these are private boats and they must have been out on the lake together...
Lake Cumberland is over 100 miles long and about 1 mile in wide...so you just cruise around and look at all of this until you are ready to tie up for the night.
The guys picked a nice cove and we just pulled right up and they got off, tied the ropes to some rocks and that was it! We did get off to do some lookin' around and take this picture...pretty cool.
The water was so clear.....
And, who wouldn't be able to get a good night's sleep under this Kentucky Moon??
Enough...I will post the rest tomorrow!!
While The Hub was getting all signed in and the kids were unloading our stuff, I walked ahead and took some quick pics. Front deck......
Up the little stairs (to the right) to the middle deck...counter and bar, hot tub and you can see the slide...it actually begins on the next higher level. That top level is a sun deck, but only accessable by a spiral staircase, not much wider than my above mentioned butt. Since I was dealing with a broken toe (ouch!) and there was that chance that I might get stuck, I never made it to that top deck. But...it looked very nice...
There was also a place to drive up here, but I didn't get that either. Oh well...back down to the living room and kitchen...just like home. Very weird to be cooking on the stove or making a cup of tea while your house is moving! That stuff on the counter is buns....bags of hotdog & hamburger buns. Now go down the hallway to the left of the kitchen and there are 4 bedrooms with king sized beds and the 2 main bathrooms and the door to the back deck of the boat.
In between the 4 bedrooms there were...stairs!! Yep...the other 4 bedrooms were downstairs and this is where we kept...er, I mean...let the kids sleep.
One of the bathrooms...plenty of room.
This is how most of the shoreline looked. We found out that the water was down about 50 feet. There is some big construction going on with the dam and they had to lower the water....but, even with 50 feet of water missing, the GPS/Depth Finder was still reading 100-150 feet deep!
Other houseboats on the lake all parked together. I'm guessing these are private boats and they must have been out on the lake together...
Lake Cumberland is over 100 miles long and about 1 mile in wide...so you just cruise around and look at all of this until you are ready to tie up for the night.
The guys picked a nice cove and we just pulled right up and they got off, tied the ropes to some rocks and that was it! We did get off to do some lookin' around and take this picture...pretty cool.
The water was so clear.....
And, who wouldn't be able to get a good night's sleep under this Kentucky Moon??
Enough...I will post the rest tomorrow!!
Hope you guys have a great weekend...
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