On Saturday, we got an earlier start to our boating...and, we decided to head back to Trenton to give the Bay a try - it was a good a good place to start in order to try out one of the locks on the Trent-Severn Waterway!
We started out just doing a little tour of the Bay, checking out some of the houses along the water.
Abby and I enjoying our cruise...
Tom and the kids, enjoying the ride...
After a little sightseeing, we docked the boat in Trenton, and while I stayed with the boat, everyone else went to order pizza. Then we had a nice little picnic beside the river.
While we waited for the pizza, we took a walk down the main street of Trenton - they happened to be having a sidewalk sale/festival thing that day. Then we had a nice little picnic beside the river.
After lunch, it was up the river to check out the lock.
The kids getting their first view of the lock...
A group shot of everyone waiting in the boat for our turn to go into the lock...
While everyone else waited in the boat, I got out to get some pictures. A closer look at the lock...
We're in, the gates are closed and the lock is filling up with water...
And, we're almost at the top...
I don't know how much the kids really understood what was happening while we were in the lock...but, the adults thought it was pretty cool :) Surprisingly, Curt has never boated through a lock...odd because he grew up closest to water?!? We only did the one lock because the same person works the next set of locks too...so, if we wanted to go through another one, he would have had to drive up to the next one and get it ready for us...didn't seem right to make a guy do that when we weren't really going anywhere, just wanted to try it out. So, once we got through the lock we took a few minutes to walk to a nearby store for water and icecream (it was hot, and we had been in the sun a little too long by this time!) and then we just went back down the same lock.
In order to cool down before heading home, we went back out into the Bay and did some tubing...real tubing this time because Curt and I bought a new tube to replace the one we broke!
Abby and I all ready to go...
Nolan and Curt went tubing too, but, no pictures - we could actually go fast this time, so pictures weren't turning out. Nolan did great and loved going really fast! I told Tom to try to flip him off, just so he would experience falling off and know it was OK, but Tom didn't want to do it...Curt was thinking the same way I was, so he decided to make Nolan fall off - they hit a wave and Curt kinda scooped him off the tube and held onto him as they fell in - Nolan came out smiling, laughing and wanting to do it again! Success!
Krystle and I did some tubing too, again no pictures!?! Unfortunately we couldn't convince Tom to get on the tube...next time, no excuses, he's going on!
Obviously it was a great weekend, one that I wish we could do a few times every summer...unfortunately, it doesn't work that way, and this was probably a one time thing. But, there's always next year to look forward to! I have a feeling we'll be watching kijiji for a kids size wake-board!
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