We decided to take a sailing trip for the 4th of July weekend. We left Wednesday morning to drive to the lake....a lake. The lake we drove to on Wednesday was not the lake we spent our weekend on. The original plan was to go sailing on Lake Almanor, and that's where we drove. When we got there, it was extremely smoky. Some of us were pretty disgusted about that, and they wouldn't allow us to leave our car there overnight. That was kind of a problem since we'd be staying three nights. So Dad decided we'd try Lake Shasta instead, and that worked out great. We got everything all set up, and Ben and Andrea came and met up with us Thursday night. We had some great sailing on Friday and just had fun swimming in the Lake. It was a blast!
Probably what was the most entertaining part of the trip was the big tanker airplane that was fighting the fires near the lake. It was a huge airplane! It held two acre feet of water. We would watch it make trips back and forth all day. It was so fascinating that just about every time it came by someone would get out the camera. Consequently we have way too many pictures of that airplane, but it was really cool.
It only took about three seconds for it to dump all of the water.
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Julia, you guys have the best blog! I don't know anyone else who has awesome pictures of huge airplanes fighting fires mixed with fourth of july sailing photos- all from the same weekend! I love reading what you guys are up too. I wish we all lived closer so we could "crash" some of your adventures. Tell your Mom and Dad, and Ryan hey from all us out here in Wisconsin. Love ya.
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