Houseboat Trip Day 4 & 5

My favorite day of the trip!

We had to have the boat back by 9, so after we brought it back and payed, we headed towards Dexter, NY. We met up with Joanna's parents and she went with them to OH. 

We had to be at the white water rafting place for 1:00. Once we got there, they had us all get suited up and ready to roll. They tighten the life vests so much, I seriously couldn't take a deep breath if I wanted to. I ended up unclipping it, because I was starting to panic a little :)

On the bus headed to the river!

Before we got into the river and the boat, the guides had to say the safety spiel. All the talk made me a little nervous since it was my first time. "If you fall out of the boat in a rapid, swim aggressively to the side!" Well, that's a problem cause I can't swim aggressively! ;)

The first rapid in the river, we went through a couple times to practice. And it was really fun! The more we went, the more I enjoyed it.

The guide let us out to swim down the river a little ways. That was really fun cause we didn't really have to swim. The life jackets kept us above the water and the river pushed us through the water! :)

At one point, we had to get out of the boat and walk along the edge because there was a waterfall and the guides said it wasn't safe to go over it. This picture was while the guides were checking it out. Rebecca was standing on the side, holding the boat so we didn't accidentally go over it.

Rebecca had her GoPro so she was able to get a video and the pictures above. If you listen very carefully and turn your volume up, you can hear the guide talking in the background.

It was us and another boat. They had more people than we did, and we did better than them! At one point they ran into the rocks :) I think we impressed our guide because we were a bunch of girls, and most of us hadn't been white water rafting before. He wasn't so sure of what he was getting into with a boat full of girls, but he did just fine!

There was a photographer that went along with us on the road and took these awesome pictures. 

If we fell out of the boat, this guy here would've been our friend.

Here we are jumping out of the boat. He told us to strike a pose cause the lady was taking pictures.

Nice pose, Heidi

A picture with our guide once we were back at the building.

When we got back, the place had dinner ready to eat. It was an awesome meal!

Friday night we stayed in a cabin (more like a house) across from the St. Lawrence Seaway in Cape Vincent, NY.

There is a lighthouse about 2 miles from the house, so walked there and found this cool rock archway along the way!

And then Saturday we traveled home! This was definitely one of my favorite trips! We were already planning our trip for next year on the houseboat :)

Houseboat Trip Day 3

Thursday morning we woke up to a nice but a little chilly day. We didn't rush around cause we had no where to be :)

Hanging out on the boat in the morning

Making lunch

Three of the girls went swimming, but three of us stayed out because it was too cold for us :)

Sometime in the afternoon we decided we better pack up and go to a spot that was closer to where we had to bring the boat back. About that time it started raining. So of we went!

It ended up being pretty stormy and the waves were a little rough. Combine that with the rain and it was a little stressful drive (and I wasn't even driving!)

We found a dock that was open so we docked up and went exploring on the island. We came back and were sitting around and realized we kept banging into the rocks in front of us because the water was so rocky. We decided to go see if we could find a little bit more calmer place to spend the night. We eventually found a good spot so we docked up.

The other group prepared supper this night. We had make your pizza's and they cooked them on the grill. They turned out really good!

The cooks

We went exploring on this island too, and it was a lot better than the other one!

I obviously didn't get the memo...

Us and Jupiter

Houseboat Trip Day 1 & 2

A group of 6 girls went on a short trip up to Canada and took a houseboat for 2 nights in the Thousand Islands.

We left Tuesday evening and drove to NY and stayed at Alice's overnight.

Here we are all ready to go! Little did we know what fun we were going to have!! :)

It took some serious thinking to get all our stuff in the back of the van!

Picture at Alice's before we left.

There she is!

Looking towards the front from the back

The bathroom. The white square off to the left is the shower. It was the smallest shower I had ever been in! In order to bend over you literally had to stick your rear end out the door...no joke! Also, the drain had no cover on it. It was just a hole straight down to the river.

Captain Mose

She did most the driving....good thing she was with us!

Our little inlet. :) Only room for one boat here. It took a while for us to get our anchors in, but we got it eventually!

Bec had a GoPro and an underwater camera so we were able to get some cool pictures.

Jumping off the top of the boat:

Making dinner. We split into 2 groups

Drying our bathing suits

Playing Bubble Talk. The only game we had

More to come :)