Indian Ocean's Eleven

Well, Last week I mentioned that decision day was last Friday, and that I would give you all an update as to what I meant by that. Well there has been a little stuff going on behind the scenes with our trip and at one point a few weeks ago it looked like two people were going to drop out. One of the two had a legitimate reason and the other, well... not so much.

In the interim period when I was not sure who was coming, I put my feelers out for potential takers. Stefan and Summer wanted in as a pair, but that would have required both potential dropouts, then Geoff "Buckets" Brantley announced he wanted in as well.

It was determined last Friday that Ryan Seibring from Hawaii was not going to cancel, so that ruled out the Stefan & Summer option. Then Geoff called and asked if I could get him a guaranteed spot no matter what. I doubted it at first, and called Anthony @ Kandui to try to work it out. Anthony agreed to allow our group to grow to 11 if Ford decided to stick with the plan.

Well here we are on Monday @ 2pm and the final results are in. Ford is sticking with the plan, and we now have a group of 11 headed to the mentawais in 46 days. The final 11 are:

1. Conner Erwin
2. Ford Blakes
3. Bill Ivers
4. Tom Ivers
5. Chris Smith
6. Geoff Brantley
7. Todd Marquet
8. Ryan Siebring (1998 Mountain Dew Wakeboard National Champion)
9. Shea Varge
10. Marc Kozai
11. Josh Lenahan

Ryan Siebring is ready for takeoff