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The plan for saturday morning was to wake up at around 330 in the am, get ready, and for all of us to be out of the house and on the road at 4am, 430 at the latest. Jim and I were ready to go at 4am, but my mother was late, of course, and we didn't leave until 530. We got to the boat rental place at 630, and of course, all the boats were rented out. She decided we'd get a hotel room for the night and go in the morning. I wasn't too enthusiastic about staying over night, but I knew my dad really wanted to go out on a boat and fish, and since this is for his birthday and is one of the last times he'll be able to do it, I agreed. So we got A hotel room for the four of us, and then daddy wanted to go to RI and find this fishing spot he used to go to. After much driving and fighting in the car and asking for directions about a thousand times, we all grumpily found this fishing spot. Once we had some bait and had the lines set up, people were a little happier. The luck was not very good, although daddy did manage to catch 2 crap fish and I found two little hermit crabs and they were amusing. After we were tired out from that we headed back to the hotel and ordered a pizza. The plan was to go out later to get some real food, but mom was dead tired and I was pretty tired, so we were in for the night. Jim and I did end up going for a walk to watch the sunset though, and that was nice. Sleep that night was hard, my dad had the tv on all night. Mom got up at 430 and got to the boat place and got a boat for us and then she came back to the hotel and we all went down to have breakfast. We headed down to the boat and once we had gotten the tackle and bait that we needed we all hoped into the boat and headed out. We stopped and anchered the boat for a while to set up our lines and throw a line in the water, but all we got were crabs. So we moved a little bit and just drifted around, and as soon as we did that my dad was the first to pull in anything resembling a fish. A small fluke, below the legal size, but, we kept it anyways. I was next and pulled in some crap fish, but we kept it anyways. Two more fluke were caught (by me, thank you, thank you) of decent size. By then we were getting tired and mom wasn't feeling well, so, we headed back to the dock. Mom was feeling really bad and lied down in the grass and was overall being a real bitch, but, she was sick so I just went along with it. After the car was packed up it was decided that daddy and jim were sitting in the back seat and I was driving with her in the front to the toursit place to have a potty break and get some lemonade. Finally she was feeling a little better and decided that daddy could drive home, and after that it was alright. There was a lot of fighting and stuff, but Jim was really really good about it all, and now i'm sure he'll never get in the car with my mom and dad ever again, but I can't blame him. It was kind of shitty, but, for the few times everyone was happy it was worth it. I know how happy it made my dad to be able to just go out in a little boat and fish, and he was quite a site to see, at least for me. It'll all be worth it by tonight's dinner though, because i'm finally gonna get my flounder :)