Water toys!

To reward the kids for their very excellent report cards, we picked up a towable for the boat!

It's an "AIRHEAD HYDRO SHOT", and we picked it up at Canadian Tire for around $100. The price was pretty good, considering all the other towables I had looked at were around $250.

The wee lad couldn't wait to use it, as evidenced by his willingly doing work (gasp!) to inflate it.

Both kids hopped on it like a fat kid on a Smartie.

They did a couple of fun passes around the lake when we discovered the design flaw in the tube: If you tow it at the wrong speed (faster than slow, but not fast enough to get it to plane on the water), the front connection starts to dive beneath the water and within seconds the whole tube is being dragged a foot beneath the waves!

If you have a rookie tuber on board who doesn't know to let go, they have a very NOT FUN ride.

Note the soggy pigtails.

She was very not happy, and didn't trust the tube after that.

Note the death grip.

It was with good reason that she didn't trust it, because it started to dive again.

And then she hated tubing and that was pretty much the end of that.

I give the Airhead Hydro shot 5/10. It's great when you're going fast, but if you have a chicken little behind the boat, it's really terrible.