Bridge House Brats, Taylor and Tyler
Phoenix famous Breadbowl Salad
After going through 7 locks, we stopped for the night at the Phoenix town dock. This town dock is run by an organization of kids called "Bridge House Brats". Just to give a little history, the town of Phoenix with its population of 2000 could not afford to run the town docks any longer. Someone had the great idea to organize the towns young people to beautify the city and rebuild the docks and clean up adjacent park. This was all accomplished by donations from boaters and tourists travelling through the area. A network of parents help the kids perform these tasks. To our amazement these youths were very eager to help the boaters out in any way such as handling dock lines, wash boat if you'd like and the best part of all, they would come onto our boat to deliver menus from the nearby restaurants and serve us! They cheerfully took our orders then ran over to the restaurants to place the orders. Afterwards they delivered our meals to our boat. All these services were provided to us free, including the docking, electrical, and water hook-up. The "brats" gratefully accepted tips and we also left a donation to the organization. On the friday night stay, they had a band playing in the park right next to us. The towns people would gather there and enjoy the music, a meal or just a homemade piece of pie for $1 baked from the kids parents. We enjoyed their famous breadbowl salad and peanut butter pie! It was an excellent 2 night stay.
