In the end, I opted out of riding on the boat. It was under 60 degrees and raining. But my husband and teenagers went out on our friends’ boat.

It went 39 mph, and made the air seem frigid. Everyone was soaked when they came back in, and the kids were treated to cocoa, as if they had been skiing instead of boating.

My husband could get into this, though. I’d love to have a boat in our future; life on the water in our future, too.