Air Quality!

We had an O-zone air quality alert and wondered what we should do with such a sunny day.  After a few seconds of thinking about it, we loaded up the car and headed to the lake where some friends were already there "camping".
     Yeah - camping is in quotes because they are using air conditioned campers with full water and electrical hook up.  This is not camping.  Camping is strapping a pack to your back with everything that'll you need.  I could continue to define camping, but that would be a different blog.  Today we are talking about playing outside in the O-zone filled air.

We loaded up the boat and headed across Lake Keowee to a waterfall that flows into the lake.  I took some kids up the side of the waterfall with me and we followed the stream back to another waterfall and a bridge.

After exploring the trail system for a bit there became a debate about which way was home.  There was obviously too many females in our group.

We eventually found our way back to the waterfall that splashes into the lake.  There is a ledge about half way up the falls where the water splashes down.  This also turned out to be a spot that you could sit on the ledge and let the water pour over you.  Lean back while sitting on that ledge and let the water pass in front of you while you take a breath in a hidden spot behind the water.  

In this next photo you can see Randy leaning back behind the water.  He could have sat there all day.

Back on the boat we tried riding the tube getting towed by the boat.  Randy loved this.  Cari and I tried it and, while it was fun, our arms are still sore several days later.

Some people in our group wanted to try water skiing.  Several of the children and one of the adults gave it a shot before we were scared away by some nearby thunderstorms.  This was a common scene in their attempts.

After a full day of fun on the lake there didn't seem to be any ill effects of enjoying the outdoors during an air-quality warning. 

 Either O-zone isn't that bad after all, or the air quality up in the mountains wasn't nearly as bad as in the stale concrete city.  O-zone or not, we had a great time at the lake!