Row Row row your boat

November is here; along with it came colder weather unfortunately. I am happy however, that we have not yet had any snowfall. Since I am driving an hour to school 4 days a week, I'll be perfectly fine if we don't have any snow this year, I know several  people who wouldn't be as happy.

From this summer

I was perfectly happy to be out in the kayak on the water yesterday. It was truly one of those days you know is straight from the Heavens. R and I went out on Lake Red Rock which is just minutes from where we are. We are so lucky to have an awesome place like Lake Red Rock this close to us, so we've decided to take advantage of it!

Our goal was to find some caves that you can paddle through. R thought they were west of the boat dock we went in at but when we got home we realized they were East...oh well. We still saw some really awesome sights.  We went about 2.5 miles west from the Elk Rock boat dock giving us a 5 mile round trip.

Check out the video of the 'caves' below!

Yaking it up.

Well a few days have gone by and I haven't done anything really blog worthy.
We spent the weekend doing things we love. We had a car accident we both helped out with, went to an auction, had a wedding (ok, It might have just been me that loves weddings!), watched some movies, and went kayaking.

We bought kayaks last fall and haven't had very many chances to get them out but we've been blessed with awesome weather. We took them out memorial day weekend a couple time and then this weekend on Sunday. Sunday was absolutely perfect for it. It was calm so we didn't get blown all over the place. Since we've only been out a couple times we've only gone out on Robert's Creek. We hope to some day go on the lake and kayak over to Hickory Ridge Park.(check it out here) Which  is the only U.S. Army Corps of Engineers paddle-in camp in Iowa. We also want to take a trip down the river some week. Right here just about a 15 minute drive from our house. We're so lucky to have Red Rock this close. I don't think that we would have gotten kayaks had we lived somewhere else, which would be a shame because we love it. We each have a ~10ft kayak. They've got enough room in them that we'd be able to pack some gear in them for our trips. It takes a lot of upper body strength but the nice part about having our own is that you don't have to be dependent on each other. I can stop paddling for a while and take a break and he can keep going. It is so incredibly relaxing too, to be that close to the water and in peace and quiet. (provided that someone doesn't have a terrible boat motor going).

We have not tipped over yet either. We've rocked them and tilted pretty far but no problems yet. :)
Now we're just trying to figure out names for them. Hubby's yellow one is affectionately called the banana right now. (I like to call it the banana hammock but he doesn't like that for some reason ;) ) R is probably going to call his "Little Rebel" though from some confederate ship. I'm still working on mine, suggestions are encouraged other wise I"ll probably pick from :Serenity, The Inferno or razzmatazz. :)


I'll leave you with this: