Canoeing on the Brazos

Well, I figured I mine as well start catching you up on some of the stories from our transition first thing this morning. :)
Before we left Waco, we decided to do one of those things we wanted to do from our first day there: canoe on the Brazos River. The busy-ness of life had kept us away and by the end of our day we wished we had done this every possible weekend.

We had to get a little creative with my pfd ("personal flotation device"), but thanks to some friends of ours, Ilana was all set!

Ilana took a little convincing, but once we were on the water she loved it (this was still on the shore, don't worry).

Paul was in the back.

I was in the front.

Ilana was in the middle!

We paddled around for about 45 minutes or so. Saw tons of ducks and a few turtles. Ilana absolutely loved it, saying that we were in a "doa" ("boat") the whole time and squealing whenever we'd see an animal, especially a duck.
We ended our time with a much-needed snack,

got all cleaned up,

 and headed out. It was so fun and so easy. We really wished we had done it more often!
-H