A Boat Always Makes Life Better
Ξ May 29th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ The World Of Tom |
I have a small boat. Just a simple aluminum boat, not very long. Its got its own trailer so I can tow it, so I don’t need to put it on the roof of the car.
It was raining a blowing hard when we went away last week unfortunately. The kids had their school holidays so they said they didn’t want to spend the whole time at home, so we went away. And though it was raining hard at first it soon stopped and got sunny so it was really nice. Rain when you’re away is a drag.
The resort was really nice. I chose it because it had lots of things for kids to do. Kids always need to be busy, so if you go somewhere where there aren’t any kids facilities then you’ve got a bit of a problem. Bored kids.
Bored kids can be the worst thing you can do for your holiday. They are 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 a happy holiday.
But the kids were happy over the weekend, which was nice. There were so many things that they could do, including jumping up and down on this big plastic blow up thing, and they just loved that. That alone kept them happy for hours.
And there was a games room and they played in there for hours too. There was this huge tv and every night there was a kids movie for them to watch.
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 back to the boat that I’ve got. I took it for a couple of reasons. Firstly because I wanted the boat along with us, but also because I wanted to take the kids bikes with us too, and I cant get 2 bikes into the car. But there’s no problems getting 2 kids bikes into the boat. There’s stacks of room there.
So we ended up doing 2 days out in the boat. One along a local river which was lovely, just puttering around looking at the scenery, a nice picnic on the bank of the river, some swimming for the kids, and a nice shady spot for us to sit after lunch and read our books, which we love and don’t do enough.
And the small lake was great too. Last summer I bought a tube and rope and towed the kids around with it so I brought it along this time too and they loved it just as much. In fact it was difficult to get them off it, htey loved it so much. They just wanted to spend the day there. (more…)