Since being in the great lakes land of Minnesota this summer we have taken full advantage of the outdoors. Today my brother Matt took off work so we could take the older kids out canoeing. We are blessed to have a number of lakes and county beaches withing 10 miles of our home. We first rented a kayak so my nephew and Alexa could kayak around the first lake. Meanwhile my brother and I had Brianna in our canoe and showed her how to row us around. We did this for about an hour and Brianna was very pleased to earn her girl scout badge in the process. Then we returned the kids kayak and everyone jumped into the canoe and off we went. This time we planned to take a 2 hour trek thru 4 portages and 3 more lakes. This was my girls first experience with the canoeing, get out and haul the canoe thru hiking trails, then re=enter the canoe and continue on, They did so great and were awesome sports-helping all along the way. The only downfall was all the millions on lily pads. At first we thought how neat to row thru them and watch the toads jump. Well, not so much when lake after lake is covered in them and impossible to row thru without ALOT of strength. All in all, it was an amazing day. No cellphones, no computers, not even a watch. Once we were all done with our long voyage we took a dunk in the lakes beach/swimming area. This area is a place I have swam every summer of my entire life. Showing the kids to look down for sunnie fish. We even got to encounter a huge (and I mean huge) snapping turtle right there int he roped off swimming area. It was so neat to get to close to one, that wasnt in captivity of course. All in all a fantastic day.
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