Everyone was looking forward to spending the day down the Dordogne River by canoe. When we went to sign up for our rental, they inforned us that no children under 5 could be on the boats. Unfortunately for everyone, I always look at rules as starting points. So after a bit of negotiating, I got both of our kids on. Good thing too, because Scout was in heaven. Icka, on the other hand, was in heaven one minute and the other place the next minute.
Pre ride. Scout was so excited about the Spiderman floaties Micah found at the local market.
Our first few moments - the only ones where all four of us were in the same boat. Scout played musical boats the rest of the afternoon.
He loved rowing for a minute or two, but quickly grew tired of it — until 20 minutes later.
Icka was acting a little basket casey, so when she fell asleep in my arms, everything became peacefull. No wonder — day after day of non stop action, and this was one of her first naps of the trip.
It was too bad that I had to cut that nap short when I saw this darling little town that I needed to stop at. Micah rowed us over, and we docked to experience this small slice of heaven.
Here we are approaching Tristen’s boat to blast her with water. I’ll have to admit that our water fight was pretty even, but when I took a massive chunk of seaweed and entangled her in it, I clearly won! (By the way, Micah made us stop our fight because we were soaking Icka in the process. Sissy — five words — In The Line Of Fire!)
We stopped to “pique-nique”.
Scout saw local french boys playing in the water, and wanted to be just like them. So he and Micah headed down to swim in the water.
We had a great time, but when they want your children to be five, I understood afterward. Icka fell in, (and I about had a heart attack) but Micah quickly rescued her. Luckily she was wearing her (four sizes too big) life vest. But I’ll tell you what — she was the perfect little boater after her mishap. She didn’t make a peep after the surprise of her life. When it was all over, Scout wanted to go again!
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