Sunday = Fun Day!

Sunday Fun Day!

We started this “tradition” when my husband was working long hours all week but always had the weekends off.  It is our time to catch up, spend time together as a family and just enjoy life which is honestly way too busy!  Unfortunately my lovely hubby has since changed jobs and doesn’t get weekends off very often.  Today was a rare treat!  That’s not to say that we nixed the Sunday Fun Day idea, we just changed it to Beef’s Monday where we go enjoy chicken wings at our local Beef O’ Brady’s and play trivia and chat up our usual waitress, Jessica.  ;)  But back to today…Ricky was off on a SUNDAY!

He decided he wanted to go kayaking/canoeing.  I was a little iffy about it, because when I think about canoeing I think about those Olympic rowing routines where everyone is rowing in sync, left or right, putting all their muscle into it, going against the current, etc.  Hahaha!  I’m sure that I built it up more in my mind to be this terribly exhausting adventure but it was actually a TOTAL BLAST!!  Gavin is usually a whiner when it comes to any kind of physical activity…especially when it involves being somewhere that there is no bathroom around (his ONE accident happened when he was 4 but it must have been really traumatizing).

Anyway, we started the day with a delicious lunch at Five Guys Burgers & Fries and then headed out to Dunnellon, this cute & quaint little town about 20 minutes away.  Dunnellon reminds me of home (Kansas).  Its small town living, Mom & Pop restaurants, and you can get from one side of town to the other in 15 minutes or less.

We rented our canoe from the MAYOR of Dunellon!  How awesome is that!?  He was a super cool guy and told us lots of stories about how much work he’s doing to make Dunnellon a more tourist friendly town!  Awesome guy.

The river?  BEAUTIFUL.  Ricky did all the paddling/rowing.  I pretty much got to kick back and relax.  Gavin was really enjoying pretending to paddle.  We had a great 2 hour ride down the Rainbow River!