The buffest girl scouts you ever did see
Katie and I started out on the Carmen's River clean-up kayak trip for SWEEP (Students Working for Environmental Enhancement and Protection) club with superb navigational skills. We picked up a 20-30 pound bird box and carried it with us the whole lovely ride. Then we decided to take the long way, and went against the current. Exhausted, we reach our destination. Nobody was there. So we canoe down to the bay, against the current. Nobody was there. Finally, when we paddled back to our lunch spot, people were finally pulling in. Yeah, we were just a tad too fast. Oh, and did I mention that it was raining? No? Well, it was.
Katie and I jump at the chance to go for a hike in the rain, but for some reason nobody else does. We went alone, had a little jog, walk. And I started to sing the "swimming, swimming, in the swimming hole" song from girl scout camp, and she knew it! That made my day. We sung the whole thing. Then I taught her Percy the Polar Bear, and we sang Black Socks. And on the way back we sang Barges, I'm a Girl Scout, Down by the Bay, The Duck song, The Princess Pat, the Littlest Worm, bits a pieces of other songs we each kinda knew, and The Hippo Song. We had way too much fun, and we probably shouldn't have, but girl scouts have screwed up ideas of what "fun" is. I'm a girl scout and I'm proud of it! Get over it.
With their 20 minute head start, we still manage to pass two people.
We're almost there, and then, we see it. Our paddles flash faster, our canoe changes direction. We have to have it, the piece of garbage of all garbage pieces: a shopping cart. Do you know how hard it is to balance a kayak, not crash into thorns and branches and submerged logs while getting close enough to the bank while keeping a bird box and while not loosing any paddles? I do. It's difficult. Now think about tring to put a shopping cart on a kayak, without tipping over. While doing all of that stuff. Right. Finally we abandoned the bird box and somehow managed to get the shopping cart out of the water. A shopping cart is NOT a balanced vehicle. That was some mad leaning-to-one-side for me. I think it's something you have to experience for yourself. ... uh-huh. Ok. Or not. You probably wouldn't get yourself into that situation in the first place.
Oh, and you should have seen the look on people's faces when they saw our... interesting arrangement. They unloaded the cart and started to take away our paddles, and we promptly took them back, and turned around, because, you know, we had to go get that bird box.
Success! Oh, and our picture might be going into the local paper. So don't be too confused when you see it ;-)
Katie and I jump at the chance to go for a hike in the rain, but for some reason nobody else does. We went alone, had a little jog, walk. And I started to sing the "swimming, swimming, in the swimming hole" song from girl scout camp, and she knew it! That made my day. We sung the whole thing. Then I taught her Percy the Polar Bear, and we sang Black Socks. And on the way back we sang Barges, I'm a Girl Scout, Down by the Bay, The Duck song, The Princess Pat, the Littlest Worm, bits a pieces of other songs we each kinda knew, and The Hippo Song. We had way too much fun, and we probably shouldn't have, but girl scouts have screwed up ideas of what "fun" is. I'm a girl scout and I'm proud of it! Get over it.
With their 20 minute head start, we still manage to pass two people.
We're almost there, and then, we see it. Our paddles flash faster, our canoe changes direction. We have to have it, the piece of garbage of all garbage pieces: a shopping cart. Do you know how hard it is to balance a kayak, not crash into thorns and branches and submerged logs while getting close enough to the bank while keeping a bird box and while not loosing any paddles? I do. It's difficult. Now think about tring to put a shopping cart on a kayak, without tipping over. While doing all of that stuff. Right. Finally we abandoned the bird box and somehow managed to get the shopping cart out of the water. A shopping cart is NOT a balanced vehicle. That was some mad leaning-to-one-side for me. I think it's something you have to experience for yourself. ... uh-huh. Ok. Or not. You probably wouldn't get yourself into that situation in the first place.
Oh, and you should have seen the look on people's faces when they saw our... interesting arrangement. They unloaded the cart and started to take away our paddles, and we promptly took them back, and turned around, because, you know, we had to go get that bird box.
Success! Oh, and our picture might be going into the local paper. So don't be too confused when you see it ;-)