Paddle Boats

We have lived in Boise over 16 years and never gone on the Paddle Boats in Julia Davis Park. We've talked about it several times, but never got around to doing it. Finally, we did - Sunday afternoon. It was a beautiful day and quite fun paddling around the little lake in the park for an hour. The ducks and geese were aplenty and they'd swim along side you hoping for a hand out (we didn't bring any). We saw a few fish and many dragonflies.

The paddle boats.

The lake pond that you paddle around. It's not big, that's for sure, but we did use the whole hour!

Tiffani demonstrating how to take a "self portrait" of 3 people - ya gotta hold the camera off to the side, not in front of you.

Plenty of geese...

Just really liked this picture. :)

Tried to get a good picture of this little duck. Its orange eye really stood out. 

Really tried to get a picture of a dragonfly - they were so pretty with their striped wings & so many flying around us, but it was (almost) impossible. Les snapped the picture of the fish and the dragonfly ended up in the corner of the picture! Not a great picture of the dragonfly, but very cool, none the less!

Tiffani was intrigued by how the ducks can turn their necks around when resting on the shore.

And with the bright orange feet in all that brown & green.

The geese would swim along with us.

After the paddle boats we went to Kathryn Albertson's park to go soak our feet in the river.

A typical picture - Les & Tiffani standing in the middle of the river. :)

And we got home to this... 

Tessa had scratched a hole in the carpet on the stair landing. There were little bits of carpet everywhere! I've been wanting to replace the carpet on the stairs for awhile now because the dog hair is the worst there, so this just gives me added incentive to figure out how to get it done!!