So Much Adventuring

Who wouldn’t want to go snorkeling, and 80° water… I had this beautiful picture of wading out from the shore, placing my face in the water where my feet could still touch the ground, and looking at beautiful fish that wanted to get their picture taken. When we got to the spot where we were going to snorkel, we were still in the middle of the water, and apparently going to jump off the boat right there. Since Murphy and I had never snorkeled before, I immediately asked how this was supposed to work. It took a little bit to get Murphy in the water, because again we were jumping off the side of a boat into the ocean, but he did it! I followed. Jesse, Rowan, Chris and Ed took to it right away. I did okay, but Murphy was pretty freaked out. Putting the mask over his eyes and nose was one of his biggest struggles. When I asked him what he was going to be most sad about though, he said, missing out. So, he took a deep breath, and tried again. He hung with me and looked at some fish, and then he went and hung with Jesse and looked at some fish. The crisis of missing out was it averted, and he was so excited about the fish he got to see.