I love the outdoors and get out whenever I can. I have a boat.
Just a small aluminum boat, about 10 feet long. Its got its own trailer so I can tow it behind the car, I don’t need to put it on the roof of the car.
Last week was the kids school holidays to I took may family, including my kids, away for a few days. 5 days actually at a small resort about 5 hours drive away. Unfortunately there was a really strong wind and heavy rain when we left and I thought it was going to be a rough drive but the wind dropped and the rain stopped after about an hour, the sun came out and it turned into a pretty nice day.
And it was a really nice resort and the kids loved it a lot. So many things for kids to do there. The killer of a good holiday is bored kids, if you’ve got bored kids then they aren’t happy, and if they aren’t happy you aren’t happy. But here there was so many things to do for the kids and they had a great time.
There really isn’t anything worse than bored kids to kill a good holiday. They get really grumpy and annoy me and as I like to read a book it’s no fun being hassled by bored kids all the time, and they really hassle if they’re bored.
But no bored kids last weekend at all. There was this huge plastic thing that they could jump on and they spent hours jumping up and down on it. How they can be so entertained with something as simple as that is beyond me but they loved it and they had a great time.
And there was this huge tv for them to watch in the games room and every night there was a kids movie to watch so they loved that too, they love movies.
And of course there was a swimming pool. I can’t believe something as simple as a swimming pool keeps kids entertained for so long but it does.
But back to my boat. I took it for several reasons. Firstly because I wanted to take the boat along with us, but also because I wanted to take the kids bikes with us too, and I can’t get both the bikes into the car. But theres no problems getting 2 kids bikes into the boat. Theres stacks of room in there.
So it was really worth taking the boat along. We spent some time on the river putting up and down looking at the scenery and having a good time. We stopped and spent an hour or so having lunch while the kids ate and had a swim. And we got to sit and read a book in the sun on the river bank.
And the small lake was great too. Last summer I bought an inner tube and rope and pulled the kids around with it so I brought it along this time too and they loved it just as much. In fact it was hard to get them off it. They just wanted to spend the day there. (more…)