Boating the Sacramento

Pop Pop took us on an adventure yesterday... Joey's first real boat ride.  He's captained Pop Pop's boat many a time, only it was landlocked in the garage (lol).  Yesterday we got him his very own life vest and headed for shores unknown, at least to us.

We headed out on the Sacramento River and meandered along checking out the turtles sunbathing on the sunken logs.  The logs in the waterway we referred to as "Alligatooors" and it was Joey's job to be on the lookout.  After a short while we took a right under the green bridge and headed down Sutter Slough.  It was so peaceful out on the water.  The sun shining, hardly a cloud in the sky and the whole day ahead of us.

Pop Pop gave Joe his first lesson in steering and let him take the wheel all by himself.  For the most part he did pretty well, only fearing towards the shore every few minutes.  Pop made the necessary adjustments and then let Joey take the lead again.  It was really cute to watch the two of them together.

We had lunch in Rio Vista at The Point and it was all good, until Joe tipped over my tea cup and spilled freshly poured, hot tea in my lap.  Luckily I'd worn layers and could swap out my top for a dry one.

When we got back in the boat to head back Joey fell asleep within less than two minutes and slept like a log.  Larry and I kept passing him back and forth because he was dead weight and our arms kept needing a bit of relief from his hefty little weight.

All the way back we kept picking out houseboats and sailboats that we'd like to own and making up names for them.  It was a lot of fun.

Joey woke up when we had about 15 minutes to go and took over as Captain.  He loved pointing out all the "BIG" boats for us... pretty much any boat on the water and steering our craft.

On the way home Pop's treated us to soft serve cones from McDonalds and I have to say this was the perfect way to bring to an end our StayCation.  We'll definitely be going out again next summer... I can't wait.