Mac, Tallene, and Trouble times Three: Mac's Birthday

This year on Mac's Birthday he got the day off from work. They had a fire out at work and closed the place down for two days, so we went fishing! I would say that fishing is a far better way to spend your birthday than working. We drove up past Ashton to Warm River and then headed up to a little lake in the mountains. We got a little lost and it took us a lot longer to reach the lake then we had planned. We left at eight and thought for sure we would be fishing by ten but we took a wrong road and then had to turn around and try again. We reached the lake around 11:30 and fished for 4 hours. The luck of the birthday boy, Mac was the only one who caught a fish. He only caught one though and it was pretty small. Mac got to use his float tube which he enjoyed since he hardly ever uses it. Taylor was the most patient in fishing. She really wanted to catch one. She just kept trying even though she wasn't getting any bites. Eliza and Bobby gave up trying to catch fish and tried to catch butterflies. Bobby was also using his shoe as a boat. He tied the fish stringer onto his shoe and kept throwing it in the water and then pulling it around and back in. One time he threw it in and let go of the string. His shoe went flying out into the lake. He turned around, eyes as big as saucers, looked at Mac and then just burst into tears. It was a look of sheer panic, "Oh no I'm in so much trouble!" Mac told him to go get it but it had drifted out a little too deep for him to walk and he started crying even harder, "I can't go get it. The water is too deep." Mac told him to stop crying that we would get it but he wouldn't so we had him sit in the car until he stopped crying. I grabbed my pole threw my line out there and voila, my only catch of the day, Bobby's shoe! It turned out to be a pretty nice day.