Nakedness and Percentages

Today we wanted to explore a bit more and we made our way out to another lake in Leipzig. This was our first time visiting, so we did not know what to expect. A 7.6 km bike ride found us rolling up to the clear waters of this new found lake. From a distance, it seemed very nice. In fact, even upon looking closer, the scenery was very nice. However, after looking around and walking along the water for a ways a few things became clear.

First off, it was a very nice lake. Second, there wasn't much sand, but a whole lot of grassy area to lay out on. Third, the grassy area was covered with people wandering around and laying out in the sun. But, what was most obvious in the first few seconds was that this excursion was not our typical American afternoon at the lake.

This brings us to percentages. When the typical "American" goes swimming, they wear 100 percent of their swimming clothes, swimming trunks for a guy and either a one piece or a two piece for a girl (at least from our own experience). At this lake, some people were wearing 50 percent of their swimming clothes, but many more were wearing 0 %. That's right, naked! A whole lot of nakedness. Out of all the people there, about 70 % were naked.

As we have said before, the people of Leipzig seem to be very active and in very good shape. But, not everybody is in great shape. For whatever reason, the out of shape Leipzigers, chose today to be naked at the lake.

Do you know anyone that you see and think, "I never want to see that person naked, ever, in my whole life..." Well, I'm pretty certain that person was at the lake today.

We rode our bikes around the entire lake, hoping to find a nice clear spot to lay out and swim. Unfortunately, everywhere we turned there were tons of naked people. We left shortly thereafter, and said to each other that "we hate to spoil the dreams of so many boys out there, but nude beaches are places to avoid."

--Dad,

Craig and I rode over the marina to look at the sailboats but they had it locked up :(. However, there were lots of boats out on the lake. It was a nice day to sail. We had a picture of some of the boats, but then we noticed that it was not appropriate for our blog if you know what I mean. --Amy

Here are a few pictures from our day. Don't worry, the pictures are G rated.

Yes Craig, there are a lot of people naked in one spot.

Very nice lake with clear water.

Riding around the lake.

I was not practicing very good bike safety. However, from my sundress and bathing suit, I'm sure you can tell that I hadn't planned on doing any mountain biking today. Boy was I wrong.

Water skiing without a boat. The line they are holding is attached to a mechansim that runs above the lake. It was quite interesting.

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