The family sets out on a kayak adventure on a narrow and steep canal. The downhill stretch is the easiest. At the end there is a high school math teacher politely waiting. Later my family is moving to New York but the plane lets us off in a toy version of Boston. City Hall is run by mannequins. As the first to check into the hotel, I discover that our room is next to a suite of three girls, all of whom seem to want to set me up with one of the others.