Narrow Boating.

Last weekend, we went on a narrow boat with our cousins. The narrow boat was 69 feet long.  It was an eight berth. The first day we got there at 3:30 p.m.ish and did all the boring stuff like signing the papers. Then, at about 5:00, my cousins came from school, and off we went!

Adam, in Sam's and my room.

The route we took had a tunnel that was fairly long.  When we first came to the tunnel there was a boat coming out from the other direction, the man driving the boat told us to watch out for bats. We didn’t believe there were bats in there, but we did look up a lot, just to make sure there were not. That was a bad plan because the tunnel was wet and some of us got water drops on our faces. When one boat went by we started singing Tunak Tunak Tun... an Indian pop song. It was really funny. ( follow the link)

When the person driving the boat (Nick) called up it sounded like when someone calls out at Pan Am during a swim meet, you could only just make out what he was saying, or not at all.

A funny pic of the dog on the boat that went through some locks with us.

Us kids were constantly running around or walking along the roof.  Sam and Adam were always going from one end of the boat to the other on the lip of the boat. My dad thought I was going to be badly hurt, (me, being the one prone to falling and tripping) in fact, he was certain I would, but nobody fell in and no one was badly hurt.  I was the closest in both things, my foot slipped in the canal, just a bit, I squished my thumb in a door, and when opening a lock, the safety latch was not on so when I took the lock key out, it spun back down.  If you let go of the lock key when opening or closing the locks, it spins down and the lock key can fly off and injure you (the lock key is a big chunk of metal called a windlass).

My bruised thumb 4 days later

The weekend was very fun and I think I laughed more in that weekend than I would in two weeks!

The gang of lock workers.