Not your typical date!

If you know me at all, then you will know how much I love the outdoors. I could spend everyday, all day outside and be in Heaven! So when I think of different ideas for dates for Chris and I, I always try to find things outside. Dinner and a movie is just not my cup of tea for a date. So you can imagine how excited I was when I found a canoe trip down the Meramac River in October. It is a 7 mile guided tour down From Route 66 Park to Castlewood State Park.
Chris and I had so much fun on our date and laughed so hard. At one point, my back started hurting because of sitting up right for hours so he told me to come back and sit in front of him so I could lean against his legs. I guess we were not thinking about how bad of an idea this was in a canoe because we now we back end heavy and started turning all over the place. I was laughing so hard I was crying and we came so close to tipping. After I was finally able to stop laughing so hard and could breathe again, I went back to the front and managed not to tip. Thankfully we were a bit ahead of the others and no one saw it :)
So here is a picture of the happy couple as we set off.

I took tons of pictures of all the beautiful scenery. This was actually a fall foliage trip and the trees were all absolutely beautiful!





You can't see it too well, but there is actually a bald eagle in this picture. I had put my camera down and by the time we saw him and I scrambled for my camera, he was too far away.


I know you can't see it in the pictures too well, but as we were floating down the river we were in a sea of falling leaves which was so beautiful. I took a picture of the leaves on the river that had just blown on us.

This is the sand dune that we stopped to have lunch at. You can still see a lot of people still there eating.

This was some kind of bird nests under one of the bridges. They told us what kind of birds but I can't remember now.

This was a shipwreck boat.


And other than the bald eagle, the only other wildlife we saw was a bunch of turtles. I was hoping to see some beavers or other wildlife, but no such luck this time.

It was so much fun spending the time with my husband and just listening to all the wildlife in the area. I think we will be making this an annual date! Oh and the weather was perfect. It was calling for rain all week so I said many prayers for it to hold out, and thankfully it did! It started off a little chilly and overcast but quickly warmed up when the sun came out. An absolutely perfect day!