Boating on Cannon Lake

It's October 12 - Happy Columbus Day - and it's snowing.... Hmm... not quite the weather I was wanting for October. While we're stuck inside and Amaya is happily playing in her "fort", I thought I'd enjoy looking at our pictures we finally got downloaded on the computer and post some of them. The next week or so, I'll try to get caught up on the rest of our summer pictures, since it looks like WINTER is already at our doorstep.

Grandpa and Grandma Horning invited us to go boating on Cannon Lake in Fairbault, MN. They hadn't boated there before, but thought the lake was beautiful - and beautiful it was!

What we didn't realize was how SHALLOW the lake was. Getting the boat in the water wasn't a challenge for Grandpa and Steve (they've got a pretty good system in place), but another group of people got their pickup truck stuck while getting the boat in the water! Grandpa to the rescue! He was able to use his truck to pull theirs out! Who would have thought it would be that difficult? While in the water, I think the deepest we got was only 10 feet! Most of the time we were between 4-6 feet of water. The water was also a yucky green color despite the gorgeous blue you see above. The weather was AWESOME and as usual, had a great time - especially when Grandpa drove really FAST!

Somehow, Steve ended up getting the camera and decided to take a picture of Grandma's cute hat! Now, where can we get Amaya one of those to match?

This is one of my favorite pictures of Grandma and Amaya. Pure happiness despite having to wear a bulky life-jacket.

Here's a picture of Steve...

Afterwards, we went to Perkins (surprise, surprise) for dinner. Amaya was most definitely Grandpa's girl and wanted him to color over and over with her. We wished we could have gotten on the boat more this summer, but there's always next summer with plenty more lakes to explore!