Cardboard boat

Ahhh.....the imagination and creativity of children, my children in particular! What better to do with a big cardboard box than throw it away?? Why not turn it into a boat! These boys spent days working on this creation. They put a lot of thought into the detail, including skateboard seats, some nice tape work, a little Elmer's glue, some paint and a sturdy stick with a flipper hooked to the end for a paddle! There could have been no better way to spend our last day of summer. We packed up the boat and took it up to first dam to see if and how long this thing would float! Smooth sailing so far! I was impressed that it was 1-actually floating, 2-floating holding all 3 of them and 3-they actually seemed to know what they were doing and could paddle them selves around the lake.

Mr. B didn't want to stay in for long but the other 2 kept right on going! Notice the water level is getting slightly higher! No worries for them.

It took almost an hour for the boat to finally decide to sink! They worked hard to bail out as much water as they could with Mr. E's tennis shoes! But when it went down, it went down quick, and they were in need of a rescue operation! (even though the water was knee deep ;)

Scott used to be a life guard, so his skilz came in handy. Not sure what Mr. E is doing here, something between showing off his 6pack ab's and wanting to take a swim!

Good times, better memories! Till next year....