Laundry Day

We now get to raise our hands if someone ever asks; "have you ever rented a car just to do laundry?" Trust us, we looked at all the options and renting a car for a few hours was the best choice to get to the Laundromat and clean our clothes. Not that we need to defend ourselves but the alternatives were; a taxi ride that could have cost twice as much as the car rental, bus trip that would have taken 50+ minutes compared to the 10 minute drive, train ride for over an hour, walking, hitch hiking or not doing laundry.
By the time we got the laundry started and walked to our lunch spot it was obvious the girls needed food. We had gotten a to-go breakfast and watched surfers on the Citywave in the morning, but the girls hadn't eaten enough to hold them over to lunch. Patience was the lesson on the laundry trip and it seems only mom passed. With a bag full of clean laundry, updated journals and some more completed homework pages we headed back to the airport for our Tom Hanks Terminal weekend.
Saturday at the City Wave was all the preliminary rounds of the European Stationary Wave Surfing Championships. We took in more surfing and observed the wave, the tournament and all the operations in action. The biggest take away is that it appears a wave at Slidewaters could be operated 8 or 9 months out of the year because theses surfers weren't blinking twice about the 45 degree air temp! We were... and the idea of getting some test surfing in has flown away.

 Kendall found a bear she liked.

 Off to watch some surfing

A little aerial picture of the entire setup for Surf & Style 2016