Emilance comes to visit

My friend Emily came to visit today. Ethan calls her “Emilance”…kind of a cross between “Emily” and “Ambulance”. It was a really nice day, so we spent the first part of the day down at the beach at the lake, where the kids swam out to a floating dock and jumped off that for a while. Later Braden rented a kayak they could all go on, so he and Blythe and Ethan went exploring the lake (while I got to RELAX in the sun with Emily and Brynn (though Brynn was sleeping in the shade). Here they are on their kayak.

Blythe and I shared a short kayak trip together before I turned the boat in. We did a lot of floating and not a lot of paddling (that paddling stuff is hard work and who wants to exercise on vacation?).

Later in the day, we went back to Sliding Rock so Emily and I could try it out and so Ethan could collect some rocks (he came prepared this time with his bucket). To our complete shock, the water was flowing SO much faster than the day before. You might think it might be too dangerous for a 2 year old, but we were living on the wild side. I think he still liked it.

Unfortunately, the water in the wading area was so turned up, Ethan couldn’t see any rocks to collect. Plus wading in the area that was completely still only the day before was quite difficult.

The day before we were able to see that there were lots of holes in the rocks of the waterfall and most of them were really deep. Today, we couldn’t see them, but knew they were there. Here is some footage of Braden and Emily hanging out in their “river Jacuzzi”. Pretty neat.