Wakeboard Mania!

So for the past two weekends we have become fans of wake boarding! Jamie has been eager to try the wake board cable park here in Singapore and well I, I like to watch and "sun bath" :) With the bum knee, it's all I can do at the moment, but it is a fun sport to watch!

One our friends Mark Griffin is a professional wake boarder and we had the opportunity to watch him at a local competition last week. After watching Mark, Jamie was pumped up and ready to try it out as well! Here is a video of Mark's "ride" from last weekends event.




Watch the WHOLE video, there is a great close up shot at the end

Kim (Mark's girlfriend) and I as spectators



This past weekend was a 3 day holiday so Jamie and I, along with Mark, Kim, Mike and Kristina hopped onto a ferry to Batam, Indonesia where there is a great wake board cable park, as well as cheap spas to enjoy! Batam is only a 45 minuet ferry ride away from Singapore and it was a great day trip (aside from the rainy weather) to get away from the city and to enjoy a new activity (wake boarding for Jamie and lovely spas for myself). We did not have an opportunity to walk around the island and see the town itself, but from what we heard, there was not much there aside from the wake park and the few small resorts around.

Jamie, excited as ever!



Jamie riding around the course, looking like a PRO! You can imagine, he was like a kid at the candy store....all day, wake board and cheap beer, Jamie was in HEAVEN! (cheap beer as in $1.50 a beer in Batam compared to the $12-$14 for the same beer in Singapore! Crazy huh?!?!?!?)

Mark, Mike and Jamie, "flexing" Captain America's

Kristina, Kim and I relaxed after our day at the Tea Tree Spa, oh la la! Nothing like a hot stone massage on a rainy day.......reminded me of home!

Ending the day, Nick, Mark and Jamie barefoot wake skating around the course,
beer in hand.....that's Jamie who falls in the video (after going around 6 times, so he says)