Our blog entries continue to be slightly in arrears! Two weekends ago, we joined Stephen, Lucy and Craig for the day aboard the canal boat Explorer. They picked the boat up from Napton on Friday evening and we joined them the following morning at Braunston, travelling to Crick in Northamptonshire. It was cold, but mostly clear and sunny and we had a thoroughly enjoyable day, honing our muscles on the locks and catching up on reading time.
Meanwhile, we had left Ben with Gran for the day, not attracted to the idea of containing him on a boat for a whole day. He had the best of times, playing with the diggers and the animals at Hatton Country World. He came home with one of these hard hats, so we now have our own little Ben the Builder all the time.
On Sunday, we decided that it would be fun to join up again with Stephen and Lucy, as they were heading back to Napton on their own, to give them a hand with the run through the six Braunston locks. This time we took Ben along for his first canal boating experience. He was remarkably well behaved and loved helping to push the lock gate and exploring the boat, which even had beds to jump on! Here he is navigating a lock with Aunty Lucy - we thought it was worth training him early so we can sit back and enjoy a rest on canal boat holidays in a few years time...
More photos of our trip are on Stephen and Lucy's website.
1 comment:
Lovely to see you all, and Ben was a great boat driver!
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