Redneck Riviera

Yesterday we went to hubby's brother's family's house on Caney Creek. Caney Creek is several miles long and eventually dumps into the intercoastal water way on Matagord Bay. We lovingly refer to it as the Redneck Riviera. Folks have had second houses and fish camps down there for generations. People are friendly, love to fish, drive their boats fast and start drinking beer before noon. The kids love the water, playing with their cousins and tubing behind the boat. Above: The kids are waiting for a boat to come zooming down the creek so they can ride the waves from the wake. Despite the fact that I am sitting just a few feet from this passel of kids n the water, the grandmothers up on the deck are yelling at them to get closer to the dock because the boats are going to hit them. If a boat takes out a kid, where the kids are in that shot, it is going to take out yours truly on the dock as well!

Below: Docking the boat proved to be a bit of a challenge for brother in law (at the helm) so hubby tossed the kids overboard to swim for it before guiding BIL into the dock.
When we had our ultrasound when I was pregnant with the first one, and the U/S tech said "It's a girl!" Hubby said the firs thting he pictured was his little girl breaking his heart riding away on the back of some motorcycle with some punk kid. Yesterday he had his first taste of it when Natalie got a ride on a four-wheeler with one of the Riviera locals. She LOVED it!