I haven't posted in a couple of days because I went down to Lake of the Ozarks to help my parents move into their new house. We spent most of Friday and part of Saturday moving stuff from their rental house to the new house that was finally finished on the lakefront.
Saturday, my sister and her friends decided to go on the boat over to Party Cove. For the uninitiated, Party Cove is a specific cove on the lake where people congregate to just tie their boats together and literally just party. We headed over and made the slow journey over to the cove. The lake was extremely busy and therefore, very rough, so it was best to take our time. The Lake of the Ozarks is a man-made lake that weaves through the mountains in southern Missouri. Here's some pictures of the lake just to give some of you the idea of what the lake looks like......
We got to the cove and noticed it was already starting to fill up even by noon. The boats just pull into the cove and look for a place to park. Generally speaking, one boat will anchor in an area and then other boats will just pull up and tie on to the other boats. Before you know it, you have a long row of roughly 30 boats in a row. This just keeps happening and before you know it you have well over 1,000 boats all over the cove and people just walking and swimming from boat to boat and just stopping to party about anywhere they please. It's surprisingly open in that you have people walking across your boat to get to other boats all the time. Most say hi on the way through as well.
In addition to all the boats that are parked in the cove, you have many 'sightseeing' boats that come into the cove, take a peek much like voyeurs to see what's happening, and then head back out of the cove onto their next stop. The size of the boats at the lake are simply amazing. There are 40-50 foot boats parked all over the place. The cove sounds very similar to a city nightclub in that there are thousands of people talking, laughing, dancing, etc. In addition, many of the boats have loud music playing, providing even more of a party atmosphere. Also, plenty of people are swimming in the water to get a break from the heat. Here's a couple of ladies taking it easy in the water.
And here are some other people swimming........
Some of the people on the boat were discussing how relatively tame the area around us was from a party standpoint. It would seem that just the mention of how easy-going our area was triggered a whole new level of partying.
On the left side of our boat, we noticed that there appeared to be a boat with about 12 young guys who looked like they were on a bachelor party. While they showed up with no ladies on the boat, before you knew it, some ladies showed up and a bachelor party broke out. Strangely, the boat had a few containers of whipped cream on it. I'm assuming that initially packed for the ice cream sundaes that they were preparing. Thankfully, whipped cream serves a dual purpose. The poor girl in the photo below had her bikini bottoms sag down. Thankfully, one of the young men was able to use the whipped cream to cover her up her exposed areas. Also, you can see a hand holding a drink below her. Another one of the young men had laid down below here to make sure everything was covered properly.
Thankfully, another young lady came over to make sure the the whipped cream was properly covering the exposed areas.........
As if all that excitement wasn't enough, on the other side of our boat we had a group of women who had the worst time keeping their bikini tops on. I'm assuming that it was the brisk wind that was causing the problems, because this young lady finally gave up at some point and simply kept her top off. The amusing part was that she and her friends began an immediate discussion about the details of her breast enhancement. They even went to the point where they felt them to judge just how good the surgeon did his work. I have censored these pictures because it was obviously not her fault that her top kept falling off.....
In this photo, there are a couple of amusing people that just wandered into the photo. It seems that when a woman's top falls off, people suddenly start looking in that direction for some reason. I wanted to point out two couples in this picture. First, note the younger couple just to the right of our topless lady's shoulders. You'll note that the young man has a serious look on his face and is staring in her direction. His wife/girlfriend is right next to him and has a big smile on her face. You decide what those two people are thinking. Also, if you look in the top center of the photo, you will notice two older people inside their boat. While the older lady is simply staring in that direction, her husband cannot be seen because he has his camera out memorializing the moment. I'm sure that I looked like him in his photo of that moment.
In addition, there are multiple pontoons that drive around the cove that are actually floating shops for all of the people in the cove. They sell things like ice, drinks, food, inflatables, etc. Here's a picture of one of the pontoons. Please excuse the fact that the young lady seen previously somehow snuck into this photo........
Also, the Marti Gras traditions are carried on here in Party Cove. If a young man or lady show their breasts, backside, etc., people in the cove will throw them beads. In these photos, there are two young ladies who are simply riding along with their tops off through the rows of boats. There were beads flying onto the boat from all directions. I'm pretty sure they had more than enough to go around by the time they left the cove.......
We finally wore out after about 5 hours of Party Cove. We headed back to the house for dinner and some late night celebrating in the form of fireworks.
