Our River Trip

We took our annual river trip May 17th to Laughlin, Nevada. We hitched up the boat and headed up to Ontario to meet up with the Imbachs Sunday afternoon. It's amazing how much you have to pack when you're traveling with a baby! Everyone was taking off together so that we could caravan up to Laughlin. We had a total of 5 cars/trucks towing boats following eachother! It was awesome. There were a few blown out tires, an air conditioner belt issue, and 106 degree weather that really helped start off the trip with a bang!

We got all checked in to the hotel (Jack LOVES staying in hotels) and tried to get as set up as we could so that we could keep the baby's night time routine as normal as possible. Everything was pretty awesome, kids settled in just fine.

The next morning we launched and thanks to the boys help, we got both boats on the water just fine. After everything was set up on the beach (ie. pack-n-play, easy up, chairs and most important food totes!) The men headed out to play and tow. It was nice and warm, Jack had a blast playing in the water on the beach and talking to the "ladies". Nohea did alright considering we didn't really have any of the comforts of home. She wasn't feeling the water since it was a little chilly for her tastes. I managed to keep the majority of the sun off of her. I wasn't messing around this year and lathered my family up with SPF 50. I got all of Robert except for his face! Oh No! That afternoon, the wind REALLY picked up and Nohea was definitely ready to go in. When we got back to the hotel, I had to get sand out of both keikis ears :(
The next day Robert put the bimni up (it's a shade thing) and that's when I really fell in love with our boat! Nohea LOVED going fast on the boat, Jack and Kurtie enjoyed riding up front and I was so much more comfortable on the seats than I was on those darn canvas chairs. We spent the whole day on the boat. We drove around, stopped for swimming in the middle of the lake, and towed a few in the Gyro Spinning tube that Robert bought at Costco online. Even Jack rode in the tube by himself. He got to go for a few Jet Ski rides and then when we came back and pulled the boat onto the sand, he swam from one end of our little cove to the other, stopping at everyone's boats to say hello. We had the best time that second day and really got to get comfortable on our boat. We didn't go in until about 6ish that evening! We had to pull the boat out since our family had to leave early the next morning in order to get back to Long Beach for Jack's T-ball pictures and game. We were sad to leave and have our little vacation be over but we're looking forward to taking a lot more trips on the water this summer!