When is a slow boring boat the best boat?  When you want to get a good workout and be able to take along a 4 and 2 year old.  I have found that the paddle boat (yes those goofy plastic things that move slower than a giant tree sloth in January) are a good option.

I have been taking the above mentioned 2 and 4 year olds on paddle boat rides for the past few days and they for some reason do not find it boring.  We take a very long time to go a short distance but they enjoy looking for birds and telling me about them.  I have heard some odd things about birds, I haven't verified if they are correct I just let them tell me stuff.  I suspect in the coming days they will grow tired of the slowness of the boat, but I could be wrong as I didn't think they would enjoy it at all.  Perhaps Russel in UP was correct sometimes the boring stuff is the best.

So, for now I get to get in a workout as making that boat go even slowly is a chore, and they get to tell me stuff about birds, fish and the lake.

I have a plan for using this slow boat as a gateway boat to move up into canoes and kayaks and only time will tell if this plan will work.  But for now we will enjoy our slow little boat.