Today I went to day camp with our activity day girls. We had a fun time learning about the temple.

Mechelle watched the girls for me and when I got back they were out back helping get the sail boat ready. (I think they are taking it out on Saturday!) The girls had a fun time playing on the boat--I'm not sure they were much help!

"There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."

Ratty (from Wind in the Willows)

Mechelle was trying to clean out the box elder bugs from inside the boat, but as we looked around there were a TON of bugs "mating!" She joked that if her boat didn't already have a name she would call it the "LOVE boat!"

Here's the bugs on the boat--you can't see them too well but there were TONS of them all over!

The kids all seemed to have a great time! I'm sure they can't wait until the boat is actually on the water not just on the trailer in the backyard!

Here they are making their best pirate faces!

A sailor’s joys are as simple as a child’s.
- Bernard Moitessier

Here are some more pictures...I told Mechelle I'm glad we have friends that have fun "toys"...it will be fun to go sailing with them!

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do.So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

--Mark Twain