Lake Time in Dongguan China

We had heard that there was a lake in Dongguan which is about an hour from our house where you can wakeboard but we didn't know that you could rent the boat and all the equipment. A member of our branch presidency lives near the lake and was a competitive slalom skiier back in the US. He would talk about skiing at this lake but we didn't realize how easy it really was to use. We went with another family from our Branch for a day at the lake. The day started with us hiring two vans to drive us out to the lake. The place is called "California Living" and when you drive up it just looks like a nice park on the lake.
While we were waiting for the boat drivers to load up all the equipment, the kids had fun jumping on the trampoline that they had on the boat dock.
Blair, Rachel, and Jonny anticipating the fun times ahead.
This was a boat tied to the dock. As you can see, they don't spend much time cleaning or taking care of their equipment. Fortunately this wasn't the boat we were to use but it was a little unnerving to see. We were just hoping that this wouldn't be another "Chinese" adventure that would end up in disappointment.
Rachel put on a show for the other Chinese people on the dock.
Finally, one boat was ready and off with the little kids for some tubing.
Saren Westrop, one of Jonny's friends, had to show us his stuff.
Rachel showing that she still has it.
Jonny getting his groove on.
Even Blair gave it a try but couldn't quite get the hang of it.


Vika wasn't afraid at all and jumped right in with the other kids. The water doesn't look the cleanest but what lake water does? We didn't get sick from it so I guess it was ok.
They moved the trampoline right to the edge of the dock so the kids all took turns jumping, flipping, and diving off into the water. Rachel showing her beautiful dive form. She extended out then tucked into a front flip. Pretty cool!!!!!

Even Vika jumped off. She is becoming more and more fearless.

Jonny in the middle of his back layout. Saren and Jonny would pop each other up right before they would go into a flip or layout. They were amazingly high.
Rachel doing a back kick out.

The day ended up being really fun. We spent about 5 hours on the lake wakeboarding, tubing, and playing in the water. We had a little mix up with the cost at the end because they were wanting to charge us per person when we knew that they had charged by families in the past. They were trying to charge us 3000 RMB. Since we didn't know much Chinese, Blair tried to communicate for us but they wouldn't budge on the price until we called our friend, Kevin, who knew the owner. We ended up leaving without paying anything until Kevin could work something out with the owner. They ended up creating a family or group rate and charged us only 800 RMB per family for the day, which is a little over $100.00 US. It was well worth it and we will definitely go again.

Another fun adventure in China.