My best friend and I have traveling three hours to her family cabin at the lake, for more years than we can count. The water of Table Rock Lake is where we learned to have fun, love others and always try new things. Although I have been visiting this lake frequently since I was 10, We always find new things to do each time.
As first year college students, going on year 19 of being alive, we chose to create friendship bracelets on our most recents trips. If you haven't made friendship bracelets since you were a child, I would highly recommend it as a summer to do with your bffs. On our most recent trip to the lake house, we chose to venture out on the boat past where we had ever been.
In the evening is the prime boating time when the sun isn't burning hot and you're not sweating gallons of water. The boat ride around the lake is very pleasurable due to the breathtaking landscape and the serene feeling while you sit in the front of the boat with your hair blowing directly behind you without a single care in the world. There is plenty to see while out on the lake, such as the countless houses hidden between trees.
On this particular trip around the lake, my friend and her sister found a cove with some layered rock and boats huddled around it. As we made our way closer inside the cove we began to see what looked like people jumping from the rocks at different levels. And I am not one for heights but promised my friend I would get out and swim with her. As we put down the anchor and grabbed life vests, I knew she was going to push me to try something new.
Once I dove into the water, I decided that trying something that scared me and that I had never done was what the lake was all about. Once I finally climbed up the stacked and jagged rocks, I decided it just wasn't for me, but my friend did not let me off that simply.
As we stood on the ledge, minutes passed and as she tried to use multiple ways to convince me that it would be okay, she finally promised me my absolute favorite food of all time- donuts! She didn't have the whole world out of her mouth before I was mid air and screaming my way down to the water. I promised her I would never go cliff jumping again- until that promise was broken many times over the next 20 minutes. Theres nothing like best friends, trying new things and donuts!
