If You Love Water, Or Fishing, You Just Have To Have A Boat.
Ξ November 19th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ About The Life Of Ray Bull, A Great Guy |
I have a little boat. Just a small aluminum boat, about 11 feet long. Its got its own trailer so I can tow it, I don’t need to put it up on the roof of the car.
Last week was school holidays so I took may family, (I’ve got kids), away for a few days. 4 days in fact at a small resort about 6 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 really nasty drive but the wind dropped and the rain stopped after about a half hour, the sun came out and it turned into a pretty nice day.
It was a really nice resort and the kids loved it. So many things for kids to do and kids always need a lot to do. 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.
Bored kids can really be the worst thing you can do for your holiday. They are annoyed and unhappy and keep hassling you all the time to play with them, when all you want to do is to sit and relax and read a book. Kids hassling you doesn’t mesh well with bored kids.
But the kids were really happy over the weekend, thankfully. There were so many things for them to do, including jumping up and down on this huge plastic blow up thing, and they just loved that. That alone kept them happy.
And there was a good games room and they played in there for hours. There was this huge tv and every night there was a kids movie for them to watch.
And of course there was the swimming pool. I can’t believe something as simple as a swimming pool keeps kids entertained for so long.
But I mentioned my boat. I took the boat along because there was a river there and I could take them on the river. And it’s useful for taking stuff along too. The kids bikes wouldn’t fit in the car but no problem getting them in the boat.
So the boat was really great. We did a couple of days in the boat. One was on the local river just looking around, a little time spent sitting on the river bank having lunch and giving the kids a swim. More swimming! And we could sit there in the sun and read our books.
And we did a day on the lake near us too. I bought one of those tire tube toys that you pull behind the boat and pulled the kids around the lake on that. They loved it and wouldnt get off. If you have kids and love water you’ve got to have a boat.
So a boat is a huge bonus for us all. Use it to take the bikes and have the kids entertained along the way and it all works. I’m really glad I took the boat along with us.