Friday, August 8, 2008

Tubing-Stoney Creek

Yesterday we had plans to go tubing down a river, we have had these plans for a few weeks. Joel from work set the whole thing up. Scott even had the day off so that he could go with, as we were going with a few friends from MY work. Amaya and Jake have been anxiously awaiting for Thursday to roll around so that they could go tubing. We had a babysitter all lined up for Ryan so that we, #1 wouldn't be out numbered going down the river, and #2 because he is quite young and we wanted to enjoy ourselves by relaxing as we went down the river. We woke up, the weather was gorgeous, talked with the girls who were going, then later got a call from Trish...


T: We're not going!


L: What do you mean, you're not going?


T: It's pouring here and the sky is all dark.


L: Hold on, don't make any decision yet, I'll call you back.


So, I turned on the weather channel and it showed a green blob over Muskegon and surrounding areas, but seemed to be moving south. It was small enough that I wasn't worried about it staying over where we were supposed to go. I called Trish back and all was good!


Driving up to New Era with the kids, we were driving into this storm. The sky was so dark and the rain was pouring down.


Jake: I don't think this idea was such a good idea


We started laughing, it was so funny.


So when we got up there, the weather was beautiful! The water was warm, and the river was great. It wasn't deep at all, infact, the kids could have walked just about the whole thing. We just floated down the river peacefully. Ahhhhhh, relaxing. We all want to go again.


The kids had a ball and loved it. (Lesley, Scott, Amaya and Jake. Trisha with Mason and Justin. Julie with Josh, and Becca with Baby Hunter-still in utero)
This is the crew, minus Joel's family, that went down the river. Joel was getting his family ready- (brothers, kids, and other friends that he had go)
After the float, some of us hung out at the beach. It was quite windy, but the kids still loved it.

Scott and Julie at the kiddie pool being hawkeyes. Caity with Tanner.




Jake, Scott and Amaya playing in the "kiddie pool"



Jake making a run for the deeper waters (about 3 feet)


















Joel making a sand castle, while Josh supervises.




Amaya's cool big jump.

Tuckered and cold Josh.















What a beautiful day we all had.

2 comments:

Leah said...

looks like you guys had a lot of fun..i wish i could have went but i guess i had to go heal the sick.. (and the migraines) love ya..

Caity said...

That was so fun! I love your pictures! It sure was windy though, huh? Let's do it again sometime!