Canoing with the boys and a Lake day

since we didn't go on family vacation this year carrie and i decided to do a few things around Nashville...
1. The first was a trip to the Buffalo River for a 10 mile, 5.5 hour canoe trip. Carrie opted to stay with Nash while i took the 2 boys. it was a great trip. weather was hot, man were our butts sore, next time i will take a game day seat cushion...highlight was the rope swing/cliff to jump off - about 15-20 feet or so... the kids both asked a thousand times when they were going to be to the rope swing - it was at mile 9 of a 10 mile trip.... they had fun, the water was super clear and we saw lots of fish. we went with Chris, Andrew and Brady - everyone had a good time with no flips of the boats - however getting stuck on logs was a common... i did have to bail the kids into the water and have chris catch them down stream… this is a trip where having at least 1 other dad is key.
2. Lake Trip to Percy Priest Lake. This was a last minute trip for sure. Seth brought his son – Ashton and Hadden wanted to invite creed so it was the 4 kids and 2 adults. We rented a pontoon that had a latter to a top deck to jump off and a slide going off the top. We pulled the kids behind the boat with a tube and got to try to throw them off like our dad’s use to do with us.. but with a 90 power engine – not the easiest thing to do but we figured it out (slack in the rope and then rip the tube out of their hands) - no injuries resulted from the day. the highlight was probably tubing and jumping off the cliffs…it was a fun day.