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The Real BigGuy · 05-01-2007, 09:23 AM

The BigGuy part comes from the fact that I'm 6' 8", the "The real" came about when we had to register user names. By the time I did someone had taken "BigGuy."

My wife has been coming to the lake since she was a little girl, I started when I was in my late teens and my Dad found the lake for vacation rentals. After we were married we bought a boat and docked it Meredith Marina. We would come up every weekend and sleep on our 20 footer. Every summer we would rent for a week and she would keep telling me we should buy.

Finnally, in '96 she made an appointment with two realestate agents to look at island property. We were out w/John Bridges and had seen the last place he wanted to show us. At that point my wife had made up her mind that that one was "the place." John asked if we had a few more minutes because he wanted to show us one more place even thought he said we wouldn't be interested. He came around the corner nad pointed the place out from several 100 yds away. I looked at my wife and said "No, that's the place!" and we have been there ever since.

My best memory - (and you need to understand, the first year I wasn't convinced we could afford it) The first year we had it I was sitting up on the deck drinking a beer and watching the kids (then 11 & 7) jumping off the end of the dock, swimming around to the ladder, climbing back up and doing it all over again - FOR 2 HOURS W/O a STOP. I looked over at my wife and said, "You were right, this is the best thing we have ever done!"

05-01-2007, 09:23 AM	#7
The Real BigGuy Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 1,333 Thanks: 128 Thanked 478 Times in 293 Posts	What's in a name The BigGuy part comes from the fact that I'm 6' 8", the "The real" came about when we had to register user names. By the time I did someone had taken "BigGuy." My wife has been coming to the lake since she was a little girl, I started when I was in my late teens and my Dad found the lake for vacation rentals. After we were married we bought a boat and docked it Meredith Marina. We would come up every weekend and sleep on our 20 footer. Every summer we would rent for a week and she would keep telling me we should buy. Finnally, in '96 she made an appointment with two realestate agents to look at island property. We were out w/John Bridges and had seen the last place he wanted to show us. At that point my wife had made up her mind that that one was "the place." John asked if we had a few more minutes because he wanted to show us one more place even thought he said we wouldn't be interested. He came around the corner nad pointed the place out from several 100 yds away. I looked at my wife and said "No, that's the place!" and we have been there ever since. My best memory - (and you need to understand, the first year I wasn't convinced we could afford it) The first year we had it I was sitting up on the deck drinking a beer and watching the kids (then 11 & 7) jumping off the end of the dock, swimming around to the ladder, climbing back up and doing it all over again - FOR 2 HOURS W/O a STOP. I looked over at my wife and said, "You were right, this is the best thing we have ever done!"