People Smuggler's!

Friday night we were invited out on Ryan's friend from GE's boat.

We left the dock at about 630pm and headed out around the bay, into Lake Erie to watch the sunset and have a few drinks. We didn't get much of a sunset due to the fog that was around.

Off in the distance we spotted a Coast Guard and a short time later they were pulling us up - it turns out that the nav lights were out, although it looked like they were on because the dashboard lights were on. The Coast Guard tied onto our boat and asked a million and one questions - checking boat licenses, insurance, life jackets, did we have any weapons, etc. We all then had to go sit inside the boat cabin (we felt like we were on a boat being smuggled! Especially considering half of us weren't from America) while they came on board and searched the boat. We then had to be guided back to the mooring by the Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard on its way to get us

Tarun, Ryan, Mark and Luis in front of the boat after being guided in by the Coast Guard

We then agreed to meet up with Tarun, Luis and Katherine at a bar for a couple more drinks, although Luis passed out at home and never made it. We didn't get home until just before midnight, and had to be up at 4.30am the next morning for our Chicago trip!