by Maria
8. September 2010 20:16
You're all used to us telling you about our road trips. And yes, we like travelling by car (or our VW bus usually)...
But this Saturday we thought we'd try out the (yellow, sort of banana-like) canoe we had borrowed from my brother. We decided to take a ride with the two older kids to see if they liked it, and they sure did! We went to Västerås (Björnö) and jumped into the canoe (allright... it's not very easy to get a heavy canoe off the roof of a VW Multivan, not when you're "a bit on the short side", but with some effort... and a whole lot of bouncing around/fixing/doing stuff from Markus, the canoe was safely put in the water)
And of course we were aiming to go geocaching (a family of four in a canoe, what else is there?). We were mainly aiming to find the "Hästholmarna runt"-caches on the islands outside of Västerås. After going to three of the islands we decided to come back another day (yes... we ran out of time, motherly strength and child patience)
Anyway... it was a really nice trip, where we got to have some quality time with the two older kids without Mr Screamy (previously known as Mr Happy/Mr Angry)
One funny thing though... guess if someone got invited to go on a real boat (with an engine) just a few days after working out some in the canoe 
Isn't life funny sometimes? 
Nighty-night, sleep tight, don't let the travel bugs bite!