Party Cove..........

Disclaimer: While I have censored the pictures to a PG-13 level, I would probably advise those of you who read the blog from work to not view this entry at work. There's no nudity per se, but there are some pictures that may raise some eyebrows if someone came into cube at the wrong time.

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.

Lionsgate skins game......

The Links at Lionsgate is a Jack Nicklaus designed golf course about a half mile from where we live. Once a year, the Senior PGA tour comes to play here the week before the U.S Senior Open. This year, the U.S. Senior Open is in nearby Hutchinson, KS, so most of the golfers have come out to play at Lionsgate to get ready for the major tourney. One thing that the nearby course allows is that the players can get used to the wind that often blows throughout Kansas and reeks havoc on a golf course.

The skins game was a match for various charities. The teams were as follows:

-George Brett and Dana Quigley
-Tom Watson and Kansas head coach Bill Self
-Jim Colbert and Kansas State head coach Bob Huggins

Needless to say, the golf out of the two basketball coaches was not very good. Bob Huggins and Bill Self had a ton of bad shots with one or two good ones mixed in. But they are paid to be basketball coaches, so I suppose that's excusable. Both of them were also a bit overweight, which I'm sure didn't help all that much.

I was privy to an amusing exchange between Tom Watson and Bill Self. Bill, for one reason or another, was running late and only showed up at the golf course 25 minutes before the match was to begin. Bill apologized to Tom for showing up late. Tom gave the standard 'no big deal' response. After exchanging a couple of questions, Bill turned to Tom and asked who was playing in the skins game. Tom went ahead and told him, but I'm thinking to myself, if you are playing in a game like this, wouldn't you take the time to figure out who will be playing in the game with you? Just seemed a bit odd that Coach Self would be so unprepared to the point of showing up late and not know who was even participating in the match.

On the other hand, George Brett is a very good golfer. He was regularly hitting drives over 300 yards and was hitting some excellent pitch shots as well. His team won the match handily.

Here's some pictures of the golf course. It was unbelievable how good the course was conditioned......








Here's a picture of the luxury boxes around the 18th green. They actually air-condition the tents! No expense spared for the corporate sponsors I suppose.



Bob Huggins on the first green......



Tom Watson in the red shirt and Bill Self in the yellow shirt......



Jim Colbert sizing up a putt......




A couple of possible retirement homes for Mrs. Lime and I.......




This young lady asked her parents if she could put on some suntan lotion. They said yes and turned to watch the golfers, but I was still watching her. As you see, it appears that she has just enough lotion to cover her entire body 3 times over, but she applied all of it to just one arm........



George Brett in the white shirt and Dana Quigley in the dark shirt. It would appear that George Brett would still not have any problems stepping onto the field at Kauffman Stadium. He is still in very good shape.......



Tom Watson lining up a putt.....



George Brett doing the same thing.......



Bob Huggins.......



A fine car that was being show by Cadillac, the title sponsor of the PGA Senior Tour. It had a sticker cost of $100,000.......



Had a great time watching the golf and getting to see the Links at Lionsgate. Best of all, it was free to the public. Hope to do it again next year.

Additional information about "FANSMU"

An article from the local paper..........

Columbia Missourian Article on FANSMU

Death is a very surreal thing........

Sunday morning, there was a message board post just like any other post on one of my favorite online hangouts, Tigerboard. You can read it here.

Tigerboard post

The person who posted that post is know to Tigerboard as "FANSMU", but his actual name is Randy Tremble. Obviously, he's optimistic about the upcoming season for the Mizzou Tigers' basketball team. Today, there was a post on Tigerboard that made what was an otherwise normal post anything but normal. A couple of hours after Randy posted that post on Tigerboard, he died of a massive heart attack at the age of 45. His wife found him on the office floor unconscious in the exact same spot where he had most likely made that post on Tigerboard.

It's almost baffling to think of how quickly things like that happen. One minute, he's just surfing the internet, posting his optimistic views about how excited he is for the upcoming season. The next, he's dead. To some extent, as I have told my wife before, this is one of the main reasons that I never really worry about death too much. While I certainly go out of my way to avoid bad situations, I never waste time worrying about the simple thought of dying. I'm too damn busy living life to worry about dying. I feel like that when that time comes along, I'll be able to say to myself that I didn't waste my time in life. Seems awfully simplistic, but it works for me and that's all that matters.

For what it's worth, I hope the Tigers basketball team does well this year and that Randy has a much better seat than I do.

Really amusing application for a job.......

Recently, a coach at a English soccer club was fired. A man in England decided that he would submit his resume for consideration for the head coaching job. His qualifications? He was really good at a popular soccer simulation video game and had also coached an 11 year old soccer team to a championship.

The letter and CV are both very amusing. Better yet, the professional soccer club's chairman responded to his application. Very funny stuff. Here's the website.

Soccer application website

Auction time!

For those that don't know, I'm a huge sucker for video game auctions. We own a couple of video game machines, a pinball machine, and a video poker machine. It's a lot of fun to have them around when people come over and they're obviously fun to play. You can find video game auctions in almost any major city. You can get full size video games for as little as $75 if you just shop around.

I went by the auction just to look around. We don't have anywhere to put the games right now until we get a home. As always, a lot of fun stuff to look at and most importantly, play with as much as you liked without putting in any quarters!!!!!

Here's one set of neon lights for sale......



More neon lights......



And still more neon lights.......



They had over 15 different CD jukeboxes.......



Some slot machines and video poker machines.......



A really nice Jurassic Park pinball machine.......



Some really neat riding horses and a riding car which would be great to have with kids......



They had about 8 different pool tables. If you can find one with relatively low use, these are excellent because they are built well to withstand a lot of play in a pool hall or bar.



A personal favorite of my mother-in-law, they had about 6 different prize cranes available.......



Some people trying out some of the games in advance of the auction. You have to do this because everything is sold as-is......



A couple of really nice dart board machines......



More slot machines. My guess is that they had around 20 of them in all.......



The golden idol of video game machines. Mrs. Pacman (yes, the Mrs. is actually more sought after than the original Pacman machines). A Mrs. Pacman machine can go for between $700 and $1800 depending on the quality of the machine.......



A couple of really fun gumball machines. When you put in your quarter, the gumball makes its way through the different 'coaster' mechanisms, adding more fun to your purchase. Kids love these things......



If I happen to run across any other cool things, I'll be sure to put them up. I'll just be going to look for awhile until I have a place to put some stuff.