It was a perfect day for a 9.2 mile kayak down the Mississippi from Grand Rapids.

We were going with the current so you could paddle as much as you wished, and then take a break and still float right down the river.

Blond child in a red Qatar Airways shirt and life jacket sits in a blue kayak on the Mississippi River, smiling back at the camera Two people paddling a tandem orange kayak on a calm tree-lined river stretch of the Mississippi near Grand Rapids. Four kayakers paddling red kayaks down a calm tree-lined stretch of the Mississippi River near Grand Rapids Person in a red shirt and sun hat fishing from an orange kayak on the Mississippi River, with a forested bank behind them.