Kenai River Fishing Trip

Mommy's Fish

Kyla driving the boat

Great Grandma and Great Grandpa on the the dock fishing

Kyla and PaPa driving the boat

Sleep Fishing with Grandma

Daddy enjoying the sun

Here Fishy Fishy Fishy...


Fast asleep in the boat

Grandma test driving her friends trike

Kyla and Great Grandma feeding a dog at the campground

Playing with stickers

Beluga Whales in the Inlet

Time for S'mores!


Kyla, Jon and I took a weekend trip to the Kenai River to go silver salmon fishing with my Mom, Steve and his parents. On the way down to the river I stopped along the inlet and saw a huge pod of beluga whales swimming, it was really neat to watch them coming in with the tide. We had great sunny weather finally after a record 30 days in a row of rain. We had a good time hanging out at the campground, having campfires and s'mores, visiting with family and fishing. Unfortunatley the fishing was not very good at all. We only had a few bites after many hours of fishing from the boat and dock. Jon caught a really big and ugly humpy which we threw back but still bragged about. Soon after I was on the dock and Grandma took a quick break to go up to the campground and left her pole in the water and she got a bite. I ended up reeling in a nice silver salmon on her pole and it ended up being the only one Silver Samlon we caught all weekend. We really like the campground we stayed at in the motorhome, which is where my family has stayed during their fishing trips for the past 7 years. We ended up booking a cabin there for when we go red salmon fishing next July.

Kyla enjoyed being out in the boat. The first time we went out in we were out for hours and she just played, ate and watched us fish, she was very good. She even got to drive the boat with both Grandma and Grandpa. We ended up going in circles, but she had fun! The next day she ended up falling asleep as soon as we started to drive the boat to where we were going to fish and did not wake up until we were done fishing. She woke up in pain screaming that her arm hurt and srceamed and cried more than I think she ever has. She held her hurt arm from 3 pm on saturday until the next morning and then suddenly just when I was about to take her to see the pediatrician the pain went away and she was fine. I have no idea what was the matter, but I know that it hurt her really bad! I am glad that she is better and than we did not have to go get x-rays or anything. Next week is her 2 year doctors appointment and I would have hated to have 2 doctor appointments for her in 1 week.