Sail Away

Last night we went sailing with Daron's brother's family out of Kemah, TX. We ate salmon that we'd cooked on the little grill at the back of the boat. We watched the sun go down. The weather was gorgeous! I even let the kids stand at the bow of the boat with their Daddy aand cousin Emily. They wanted to climb all over the boat - not caring that the boat was keeling far to the side or that Mommy was begging them to please hold still until we straigtened out a bit.
Nathan loved holding the wheel (it was on autopilot). As I said, the boat was keeling so he'd hang on to the wheel for a moment, then start sliding towards the side. He'd laugh and climb back to the wheel and do it all over again!







The only bad part about the whole thing was that we docked around 9:30pm and while Daron was helping clean the boat up, Emily and I took the kids to the car to change into pjs for the ride back to Katy. Unfortunately, I stuck the diaper bag in the car with the keys in it. Then Esther locked the car. Then someone came by smoking so I shut the door so it wouldn't get in the car. I did't know Esther had locked the car. So... we waited for over an hour for someone to come unlock it for us. Nathan was freaking out (he hadn't napped on the way down) and just wanted his blanket and to sleep in the car. He couldn't understand why we just kept standing around in the parking lot! Poor kid. He finally fell asleep on my shoulder right before the lock guy came. Esther crashed just after we got in the car. What a night!