This past weekend, Heather and I were invited to go to Donner Lake to go sailing. It was Heather's first time sailing and my second. As we approached the lake with our Pastrel friends, we both got excited.

Once Dave figured out how to get the small, 13' pontoon boat in the lake, we climbed aboard. I suppose most of the morning I anticipated that there was a slight possibility of flipping the boat due to gusty winds, hence I wore my board shorts.

So we set out from the dock and within minutes hit a breeze. It sure was fun! Moments after, however, we endured quite a gust that caught us off guard. Subsequently...the boat rolled onto it's side. Now this was most of our first times doing this, so we (Heather and I) had no idea what to do. Luckily, Dave was our captain. Although I felt a slight discomfort when we were floating in the middle of the friged lake when he said "now what?" Luckily, we managed to flip the sailboat over.

We figured out that we had to lean against the wind to stabilize the small vessel to prevent from rolling. Eventually we got a good handle on how to sail. As a matter of fact, we definitely want to go back as soon as possible! In any event, we didn't die or drown...which was nice.