Saturday was our 11th Anniversary and of course, Sunday was Father's Day. What a great weekend, we had! Friday night we loaded our canoe (Thanks, Brian!) onto the van for the first time. It took us an hour since we hadn't done it before, but now we're pros. Saturday morning after breakfast, we took the kids to the lake down the street for their first canoe ride. We spent the day canoeing, swimming and playing on the playground there. The boys loved it! and they did great staying still in the canoe. We're sore now, but we had a great time. While we were swimming, a couple of fish swam up to us. If the boys hadn't moved their hands occaisionally, the fish would've taken a bite! In fact, they did nibble on my bathing suit. Chase thought that was especially funny since I jumped in surprise! We expected to go to the Nashua River on Sunday, but it was cold and rainy. Oh well. At least now we know we can get the canoe loaded quickly and easily whenever we'd like to go!
Brian had bought the canoe when he lived with us and left it for us when we moved to PA. Brian... it turned out to be a great canoe to keep stable while the boys were in it. Despite the struggle to lift the canoe, the weight of it helped Karen feel safe that the boys weren't going to tip us all out! Thanks again, Brian! You guys will have to come up and go with us sometime... show us how it's really done!
Chip
6 comments:
I'm sure Becca and I would love to come up and show you our canoeing technique, but if I remember correctly, you already know the magic of the famed "J-Stroke." Seriously, though, I'm glad you guys had a good time. That sounds like a blast. I can't believe about the fish. That's crazy. Although, it sounds like they're hungry enough to make fishing easy. You'll have to get your neighbor, Darren, to give you his tips. If I remember correctly, he fishes that lake all the time.
Brian
Wow, sounds like you guys had a great time. The picture is beautiful. Glad you had the canoe; it sure is fun and quite relazing that's for sure. Thanks for posting.
Uncle Earl
cool!! I can picture you all out there on the lake together.
Happy Anniversary!
What a great time...treasure the moments, they go so fast.
Sounds much smoother than our first experience with Tom and Toby in a canoe...lets just say the keys to our jeep ended up at the bottom of the lake and thankfully we have friends in Kearney to lend us a car to get home!
Happy Anniversary!
Seems like somewhat of a relaxing weekend. I'm glad the boys didn't decide to go swimming. Have a great anniversary.
Imagine those fish surprize when they came upon CHIP. "WoW, now that's a big Human nugget!" It is a wonder they didn't try to drag him off to store up for the Winter. The kids were so excited on the phone, I could barely understand them. I heard Canoe real clear and Fish.
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