Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Kayak Morris

In a search for something new and different to do for Labor Day, Steve found a place in Morris that rents Kayaks.  So off we went to brave the waters of the Illinois River.
We set it up this way: Steve and Sydney in a two-person, Me and Carter in a two-person, Spencer in his own, and Tyler and Sam in a two-person.  The people renting the kayaks were concerned about Spencer out on his own so they tied his kayak to Steve's.  They need not have been worried.  The people who ended up going in circles and playing chicken with speedboats were these two:
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 Okay, so they didn't play chicken with speedboats.  But, they did do a little better with some guidance from their dad, who ended up paddling for not one, but two kayaks. All good though! 
It was a super fun activity for everyone, except for Carter who kept asking me to "park" the kayak.  He was a little nervous about the water, and especially the waves, but we didn't even capsize once!  Well, there was the time Spencer flipped over, but that was in the shallows and I think he was trying!
So here's the photo dump:
Tyler, the "Keeper of the Twizzlers"...
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Me and my partner...
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The proud solo kayaker.  He left the rest of us in the dust...
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Good times, great stuff!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So good to see a post again. Glad you had a fun time. I'm with Carter though, it does look a bit scary.

Kristen said...

Looks like fun :) I love the kids lined up in their Y hats!

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