Crab Island, Boating, and Friends.

Yesterday, the girls and I, decided to play hooky from Church and take Daddy boating.  Our friends who have a little girl in between Remi's and Tate's age invited us to join them as they were renting a boat for the day.  IT WAS AWESOME. 

Sorry, no pictures.  Well, there are but I did not take them.  I was tagged in a few so I am sure you can see them if you want to (ugh, I hate looking like a polk-a-dot whale.  This exercise better start paying off.). 

Crab island really isn't an island so much as a giant sandbar.  Some places the water is only knee deep.  It was at my chest and Zack's waist where we were.  Tons of people go out to Crab Island in their boats to enjoy the shallow water.  There are all sorts of modified boats that look like shacks that sell food that motor out there and park for the day as well as pizza delivery by Wave Runner.  Pretty neat.  You really can just spend the entire day out there as long as you don't have to go number two (though you may be lucky and have a toilet on board your boat, we didn't).

So we spent the day playing in the water at Crab Island and near the beach by the rental marinas.  The kids loved it.  the hunted for sand fleas, hermit crabs, fish, and shells.  They had so much fun in and out of the water and were busy busy the entire time.  They were even dancing to the radio for us to watch.  Too cute.  They wore themselves out and the moment they were in the car and it went into motion they were out.

The only negative for the entire day was when Zack, trying to climb into the boat as we were launching from the beach, pulled the door into my left foot hard enough to scrape off some skin and leave a nasty deep bruise.  This bruise feels a lot more evil than it looks.  It hurt to put my running shoe on and then running was not an option so I hiked up hill until my foot began to ache.  Stupid door.  Stupid bruise. 

We had an awesome day out on the water and I have now decided that we need a boat.  Who needs a beach when a boat is so much more awesome.  I guess we should take things one step at a time.  Use deployment funds to finish paying off debt, save money for down payment for house and then look into a boat.  Oh! But I want a boat so badly now.  Maybe we should look at a condo on the beach with a boat slip....just a thought.