A Romantic Valentine's Day Gondola Ride

Yesterday we went to take a "romantic Valentine's Day gondola ride" at the Y. The only bit of information we knew was that between 2-4 the YMCA was offering gondolda rides in the indoor pool. I thought we should wear our bathing suits. Will had a good point, we would never get wet on a gondola ride, so we did not wear our bathing suits. In fact, our plan was to go out to dinner afterwards so we wore nice clothes.

When we arrived we saw the canoe. We also saw that the only people riding in it were kids. Well there is NO WAY Sophia could ride on her own so they suggested that I ride with her. Um, OK. Just let me climb in a sit on the sopping wet floor of the canoe and hold Sophia...which is exactly what happened. When I got out of the boat at the end of the ride my pants, sock and shoe were all soaking wet. I was sitting on my left leg, so only one side of me got wet. I might even go so far as to say that the entire canoe floor was dry. We all had a good laugh about it. And yes, we still went to eat sushi for dinner. Well we were the only customers so it didn't really matter.

Sophia didn't really care for the experience and seemed a bit stunned the entire time. I'm not sure if she even noticed the balloons tied to the boat. I tried to show her, but maybe the boat-rowing teenage boys wearing their glittery masks and speaking in really fake accents scared her too much.

Daddy was playing cameraman - and took 2 videos!
Watch a video of us on the ride.
Watch Sophia at the end of the ride.