Lost and Found

I love my family. They make writing in the blog so easy. My number 2 (Ash) called me yesterday and said, we are going canoeing and we need to find a place to put in. I'm at work, and she says to her friends in the car, my Dad can find a spot. Of course I start with Google and try to find this obscure park on the Grand River. Then I text to her phone the directions to this park.

This spur of the moment trip, made me ask some very relevant questions(to myself):

1-Did anyone plan any part of this trip?
2-Where did my daughter get a floating device?
3-If they go down river, who will pick them up?
4-How are they going to get the floating device back to starting point?
5-Did anyone plan any part of this trip?

Ash said they would paddle close to our house, and she would walk up and expect hot pizza ready to eat. I also found out that Vic had conversations about this trip and didn't fill me in....

So they started about 4:00 PM down the river. I call her at 9:00 pm and try to find out where they are, and when are they getting close.

Then the fun begins, since I have never been on the river, I had no idea where she was. She kept repeating where she thought she was, and I tried for 5 to 10 minutes to get a location on Google. 144th is in Grand Haven and Spring Lake. Finally after giving me a specific address, I located where she was... I had to drive down a road in Spring Lake that I never had been before, to a boat launch that I had never been at, to find the following:

1-4 drenched young people, 2 girls and 2 guys.
2-1 wet canoe and all the fixing of a possible disaster.
3-1 Dad that just couldn't believe how I was going to get all these guys back to my home.

Well, they went 5 miles in about 5 hours. Not the most efficient way to travel. I think you can walk faster than that!

After all these answers were presented, I felt a lot better, and had a very enjoyable time along with Vic with her friends : Matt, Joe, Ahjani.

The only question is, did the blond thing skip a generation of not?

Right now the jury is out on that. All I can say is sometimes plans happen when your working them out. I think more planning was put into this than I thought.

At least they were not "up a creek without a paddle".