Gone Fishin'

Last week we went fishing with the rehab hospital where Jennifer has her outpatient therapy. They have the most wonderful program that uses adaptive equipment to allow handicapped people an opportunity to feel normal and have some fun that the rest of us take for granted. The program has activities all year long and last week we all got to go deep sea fishing. They let us take Mikey (our grandson) along with us so he got to enjoy the day with Nana, Umpy and Aunt Jen Jen. It is such a wonderful opportunity to be able to do that since many of the activities the kids do are very inaccessible to Jennifer. Mikey had never been fishing and was very concerned about having to bait his hook once he saw how big the bait was! He said he would be excited to catch the bait fish (about 8") long. He started out a bit timid about handling the fish but soon became the fishing expert, baiting all our poles. The fishing is so good right now due to our unseasonably warm waters. We barely got our poles into the water and got hits. Mikey loved casting his line and then just reeling it back up to see if the fish had gotten his bait! Gus put a bait fish on Umpy's hat as he took a well deserved nap. He spent much of the day fixing our birds nest mess after our attempts at casting. I never imagined that fishing line could get so tangled up! We all had so much fun and can't wait until the 9th when we get to do it all again.