Last week, it was hot here. Not as hot as it's been, but hot nevertheless. As a result, we spent some quality time in the water on Thursday and Friday.
Wednesday night, Mom, Dad, and Brystal came up to spend the night, and on Thursday we all went down to Ichetucknee Springs. We all got tubes and headed up to the North entrance, Dad and Gary dropped the rest of us off and took the cars downstream. Britt and Brystal went and put their feet in the water, and hated it. The water there is very, very cold. Even after 2 and 1/2 hours in the water, I didn't get use to it. When Dad and Gary got back we headed down to the water. Brystal and Britt had their life jackets and a little inflatable boat to ride in, and all of us shoved off. It was really beautiful floating down river. We saw lots of birds and turtles and some fish. Britt fell asleep about 10 mins in and woke up about 15 mins before we got out. He had a GREAT nap. Brystal thought the water was too cold, and ended up riding in Dad's lap most of the way. They have trips between 30 mins and 3 and 1/2 hrs, next time we thinks we might go down a different part of the river. Gary and I really enjoyed it. We are hoping lots of people decide that they want to come, so that we can go again. Next time we really have to bring a water proof camera though, so that we can get pictures.
On Friday, it was hot and Britt was cranky, and Gary's professor called off his last class. So we decided to head down to the pool. The water was great... or in Gary's opinion too hot, more like bath water... Britt and I thought it was perfect though. Britt mostly enjoyed climbing up and down the first few steps and walking along the ledge that ran all the way around the pool. He spun in circles with me some, and went under water with Gary. He finally started holding his nose, but left his mouth open in a big grin, so he kept coming up with a mouthful of pool water. We managed to get him to jump from me to Gary in the water, and lay on his stomache and kick to get around. All I can say is he got his fishy self from his Daddy, because I'm not fond of all that water in my face. I want to be where I can EASILY touch the bottom.
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