Gettin' All Up Close and Personal!!!!

We had family in town this week! Actually, it's Butch's family by blood, they just got stuck with me in the deal.( I can assure you I came out on the winning end of that equation!)

Anyway, since most of the crew had never been to our fair city, We spent some time down by the river. Butch was off work for most of their visit, and he was more than happy to explain river life to them as best he could. For people who don't live the life, it's a hard life to explain!

While we were walking from the parking lot down to the river walk, I saw one of the familiar yellow tugboats cruise by. (OK! OK! GEEZ! He isn't even here and I can hear Butch yelling at me no, more like correcting me , no........ hasseling me no, it's just "assisting me with proper terminology" that the boats are not yellow, they are BUFF! Whatever Mr. Man, they look yellow to me.

So here comes the yellow buff tugboat and of course I can't get there in time and corral the gang to identify which tug it was, but from a million yards away Butch quickly called out "It's the Florida!" which is his boat and in typical fashion, we were a day late and a dollar short. I looked upriver and low and behold, another  yellow buff tugboat was heading down river! It was Tug Bulldog! 

And because we are so veeeeeeery speical, some good fortune brought the tug very close to us, which delighted me and the two 5 year olds with us! I love tugs...truly I do. I love this life, and I love being a tugboat wife!