Mommy gave us a valuable and fascinating lesson on Thursday- how to right a tipped kayak. We were at the beach, kayaking on the bay. When Mommy and Daddy came back from their kayak trip, the rest of us thought it would be fun to go out to meet them and hitch a ride. Apparently, while trying to throw Josh off the back of the boat, Daddy leaned too far over and tipped the kayak. Fortunately, the water in the bay is only 2-3 feet deep and most of us were wearing our life vests.
Mommy took advantage of the opportunity to show us something she had learned at camp as a child- how to turn our boat back over again. It's a lot harder than I expected. You have to get underneath it and push straight up, or else you only get more water in it and risk sinking it altogether. Kayaks full of water are heavy. It took us multiple tries before we got it upright with only an inch or two or water inside. It was fun though.
On the beach side, we broke out the kites. The boys each had a new kite, so when added to Amanda's and Daddy's, we could have had five kites in the air at once. It turned out that one of them was broken, so we ended up with four. As it was, they had to spread out quite a bit to keep from tangling their strings.
Kites escaped from their fliers several times, leaving someone scrambling down the beach after them. Hannah let go of Amanda's once, and Nathan's string broke. It flew a ways down the beach before it landed, and then he and Amanda had to go retrieve it. Nathan almost got hands tied up in the string when he tried to wind it up. I wish I had a video!~Megan~
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