Eden SUP

Eden got what we call the sushi board (pictured below) from Mimi and Popi for her birthday this year. Almost as soon as she got it she started using it as a SUP. The first time she did it I was blown away. I never would have imagined she would even think to use it for that, but it ended up being such a break through for her because she could go faster and have so much more control than she ever had before with our giant 200 pound boards. Up until last week she has never ventured out of the shallows with it. In fact, during the summer I would swim out to the buoys to coax her into taking the board out to deeper water. Then, out of the blue, last week she decided to paddle it to the other side of baby beach staying just outside of the buoys. That, in and of itself, was such a shocker to me; but once she was done she excitedly proclaimed that she wanted to paddle to the far jetty. We ended up going down to baby beach three times this week to practice this feat. Needless to say, Eden is hooked. 

On the first day, Eden is admiring the pirate ship and contemplating paddling out to it. This was in the wee moments prior to her deciding to go for it.

We came back the next day and as you can see from her expression she is amping to get back out there.