Favorite Place Essay

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Looking for some good family fun? Do you love all types of water sports? I know I do, and that’s why McCall, Idaho is one of my favorite places to go with my family in the summer. McCall is a resort town located on the western side of Valley County. It is a small town on the south shore of the Payette Lake, and the Payette Lake is where all the fun takes place. Although my family enjoys doing everything that has to do with the lake our favorite activities would have to be jet skiing, tubing, and just swimming in the lake. To me there is nothing like the feeling of having your hair blow in the wind and the water splash in your face as you are making a break for it down the lake on a jet ski. The best time to go is as the sun is setting behind Osprey point and the water is smooth. I remember this one night last July when my mom and I went out and took a cruise around the entire lake watching the sun go down. We almost had the whole lake to our self that evening and it was such a good bonding experience. Although I love jet skiing, I think my absolute favorite thing to do with my family is to go tubing. I love the feeling of being pulled behind the boat on a tube with my brother and being whipped all around the lake. My dad makes keen turns to the right trying to throw us into the 66 degree water. Unfortunately a majority of the time he is unsuccessful at doing so. Another thing that I really enjoy doing is swimming in the lake. One of the best days I’ve ever spent up in McCall came after laying out on the dock for two hours getting my tan on and then jumping into the chilly lake. My brothers and I swam 25 feet out into the lake to our water trampoline that is anchored to the bottom of the lake, which at that point its 30 feet deep. It was about 2:00 in the afternoon so the water was pretty choppy from all the boats on the water, all you could hear were the
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