We spent a lot of time planning surprises for Mom (some unintended!) for when she joined us for vacation from 6/16 to 6/22, but I had something special up my sleeve for Ben, and it just happened to coincide perfectly for Father's Day!
I surprised Ben with a 2-hour excursion on a 38' sailboat captained by an experienced sailor. Ben got to be the skipper and stood at the helm for our adventure!
Captain Doby ran the sheets for the sails and the rest of us got to be passive participants in the adventure. We had the perfect amount of wind for the day and got a good bit of tacking in, and a fair bit of an ab workout for when the boat switch positions based on the sails (come on out with us sometime in our boat on Lake Sakakawea and we'll show you what we mean :)).
And after the fact, it was a trifecta of perfection - not only was it Father's Day, the readings at Mass had everything to do with boats on the water, AND the sailboat we sailed on was named the Obsession (which is the same name as our boat in ND! {only because we haven't renamed it yet; it came to us that way}).
I let Ben in on his gift after Mass and a quick run to Costco - I asked for the keys so I could drive to the marina, where I read him a simple haiku about sailing and then informed him of our trip slated for 90 minutes from then. Mom got the whole thing on video (which the girls have asked to view about two dozen times). He was truly, greatly surprised and had a blast of a time!
Happy Father's Day, Ben!
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