Boat Ride

 

We all signed up for a morning boat ride up the Panama Canal, an excursion I suggested after reading about it on-line.

 

Had the kids skip school because we thought it would be so exciting.

 

But from the first chug of the engine we knew it wasn't going to be so great--tons of stupid jokes by the tour leader--plus seeing hardly any wild life.  Gwen even asked to go back to school because she was missing long division.

 

What was good: on off-shoot of the canal was this pretty nifty houseboat where we had lunch, and

the ride back back to Gamboa was fun (this time without the tour leader)--wind in our faces as we raced down the Canal past huge cargo ships.  

An up and down day but that's life!