Canoeing on Concord River

Saturday morning, I went canoeing. I was so excited. When we got there, my mom picked a big silver boat, life jackets and paddles. We got in the boat and the man pushed us and we all rowed.

At first I didn’t really know how to paddle the right way so I just paddled. Then my dad saw that I paddled wrong, he told me the right way. It felt easer but it was tiring, sometimes I had to rest. Now I was good at it but my mom and I couldn’t paddle at the same time, so we were fighting. My mom counted 1-2, 1-2 and that worked. When we got used to it, we didn’t have to count any more.

After we paddled a while, I heard a splash. I looked around; my sister was splashing my grandma. The splash was so big I even got wet. My grandma told her to stop. Some times she forgets, some times she remembered.

After some rowing, I felt we were turning to the trees. We had to lift up the branches. It was good my dad was in the back to steer. He got us out of the trees. A little while later I thought of an idea. I told my mom we could live at Venice. So we wouldn’t use gas and rowing a boat was fun. My mom said when Jasmine was older we could go. I said, “Yay! I was happy but I had to wait until Jasmine was older.

Just then I saw a brick built bridge. It had three holes. We went through. There was a second bridge with one hole. It was brick too. We went under. I made wolf noises and it echoed. It sounded like it was real. After we were through, I saw a few ducks. There were a lot of small ones. Then we saw a duck flying, it flew past a turn.

Finally we were at North Bridge. We parked the boat, but it was hard. Then my sister got off first. Then we went on the bridge. It was wooden and it had a lot of holes under. My mom asked me if I knew what the statues on either side of the bridge were for. I said no. She said that the British and the American had a battle on the bridge. Then my mom said the British had made the first shot. But I wasn’t sure what the other stature was for. After we walked across the bridge, I noticed a lot of purple flowers. It looked magnificent. There were so many. I never saw anything so beautiful. I couldn’t believe my eyes. But then my mom was ahead so I had to catch up.

After we walked a while and I was getting board. Just then my mom and I saw a path. We went in. We saw a man and he said there were blackberries ahead. We walked further but I still didn’t see. Then my mom saw a blackberry bush. I was excited to try because I never ate black berries before. My mom picked one for me. I asked my mom if it was dirty. She said you could eat wild blackberries. So I ate it. It was sour. It made me feel like my teeth were going to fall out. So I had to suck it. My mom said blackberries were supposed to be sour. But it was too sour. We picked some more and started walking again. We walked and we were at the visitor place. We saw my sister. My legs were tired so we decided to go back.