House on Water!

I have been meaning to write this a long time ago - well about 2 weeks ago to be honest! But I have been traveling crazy for the last few days. Not that I don't like traveling, I absolutely love it; but it does take a lot of time and energy. Had been sleep deprived for 2-3 weeks now. I think I am digressing a lot here - you must be wondering how the hell does all this relate to the title of this post "House on Water"....

It was the Labor Day weekend and we rented a houseboat on Lake Shasta and that's what I have been calling a house on water :-) it was soooooo much fun, I still feel at times, that I am sailing away on the waters on Lake Shasta! There were seven of us and all newbies on house-boating front. When the idea was in nascent stage, we couldn't believe that we would be captains of our own boat. Nobody else would accompany us for steering/docking/taking care of the boat. Plus the idea of staying with so many people on one boat, in one single room wasn't something usual :P

But believe me after all this nervousness and all these doubts, it was such a awesome trip! I am glad I did it and conviced other 6 to join for this nobel cause :P

We did everything - Modeling (well models pose for the pictures all the time, and the place to scenic it was almost inevitable), Swimming (so what if it was with life jackets; none of us had swum in 250 feet deep waters before), Board games (yup Settlers of Catan it was and that particular game turne dout to be so interesting we took a picture of the board at the end :P), Cooking (So what if it was just Maggie :D), Baking (Oh yes we baked a pecan pie and it came out pretty well after all the major blunders such as a mixing egg in the pie filling, replacing Cane sugar syrup with water to mention a few :-) ), Star gazing (oh it such an amazing experience lying down on the boat roof and gazing at the stars), Story telling (the ambience turned out to be pretty conducive to ghost story telling :D ).......

Oh I almost forgot to mention - it happened to be my birthday as well :)
My friends successfully hid my bday cake! Although I unloaded almost all of the food stuff from the cars, the cake managed to escape my eyes! I was pleasantly surprised to see a cake at the roof top at midnight :-)
Wow how to describe how it felt like cutting the cake on the roof of the boat admidst Lake Shasta - absolutely sensational :P

Long story short, it was one of the best trips I have made so far - the combination was just perfect (Company of awesome friends (including some very special ones :-) ), calm, soothing waters of Lake Shasta and my birthday :P)