Date Night With the Willies: Kayaking Little Sugar Creek

We joined some couples for dinner at Rosita’s and kayaking Little Sugar Creek a few weekends ago. 

Brady and Gina B, Heather and Chad Robinson, us, Greg and Robyn S, Matt and Jenn T, Tess and Steve H. 

Bryon and Amber S and Dan and Linsey G joined us for dinner but didn’t kayak. 

This was SO MUCH FUN. We live in such a beautiful place. We dropped in at a campground in Pineville (with a “no tweakers” sign. That sparked some conversations among the group and many didn’t know what tweaking is lol. We discovered through many laughs that the rule was if you’re from California or have teens you know lol) the guys organized truck and trailer drop off and Byron and Dan drove our party van for drop off and helped move cars up to the Crabbs for pickup. 

We paddled/floated for about 90 minutes and it was just  heavenly. Enough current to sweep a few friends downstream a few yards occasionally or turn inexperienced paddlers around backwards or into low branches a few times (more laughs) and never too stagnant to keep us from moving.  We really didn’t NEED to paddle other than to steer and if we hadn’t been racing daylight it would have been a long long lazy float. Perfect. 







It was nightfall as we came around a large bend at the Crabbs property to find “mom and dad” Dan and Linsey with a bonfire on the shore, a speaker booming good tunes, a cooler of cold drinks, and a table filled with fodder for smores and campfire candy cones. 

We did it! What a crew! It was so nice to just show up at a date night and have all the fun planned and prepared for us. Thanks for the invite, Greg and Brady!