Canoeing

This morning Grammy, Aunt Kristy, Chris ( her boyfriend), Chance and myself all packed up and headed to the Estero River to rent canoes. On Friday we purchased Chance a life vest to wear today, I was concerned he wouldn't want to wear it and our canoeing adventure would end right there. At first he didn't want to put it on but after I explained our No Lifevest, No Ship ( his word for all boats) he decided he was willing to wear it. He was set up with two pads to make a seat in the middle of the canoe and his own little oar and off we went. The short and sweet story is Chance had a great time. He understood he couldn't stand up and so switched from sitting in his seat to leaning over the side helping us row. He liked letting his hand dangle in the water. We all had a great time watching Kristy and Chris run into trees and things, they got a bit better by the end. We saw birds and fish but no alligators on this trip. Like everything else that you do with a child for the first time I was worried Chance wouldn't like canoeing but he was smiling and very interested the whole time even laughing and waving at other canoes. He didn't mind his lifevest at all until the last ten minutes when we were almost back to the dock he saw a couple people up on the bank and asked to get out but I think that was more because we were pushing nap time than because he was tired of canoeing. I am so glad Chance liked canoeing because both Scott and I like to go, we already have a place picked out to go back home, we've just been waiting for him to be old enough to reliably follow direction and it was nice to go for the first time in a place that I knew really well. Now we are ready to go on more canoeing adventures. We took lots of pictures with my camera which I will upload when we get home for now I just have these two. Also, Scott is stuck doing lots of editing in Las Vegas for the next two days. It is a really big project and he has to work hard and long to finish it by Monday so I wanted to send some love and happy editing thoughts to him.