White Water Rafting
This weekend rocked!!! _akathisia_ and ladynine picked me up from work on Friday and we headed on a roadtrip to Buttfuck Nowhere, Quebec.
We were meeting an old roomate of mine and her husband there, and partway through our travels, I realized I'd left their cellphone number at home. It was safely attached with a sticky note to my Motorcyle Driver's manual. lol. So, then I had to hope that they had brought my cell phone number with them! Except that we didn't get service anyway.
Our directions said to go to the white barn for directions. The white barn was surrounded by caution tape and the doors were all boarded up. lol. We drove around for a while, then oddly I did get service for enough time to check my messages, which fortunately included one telling us where they'd set up camp. So, we found them.
Pulled the tent out of their trunk to realize the three man tent had 2 poles. To hold the fly up. So, we had a beer while pondering what to do. Ended up setting up the 2 man tent for _akathisia_ and I, while ladynine slept in the car. (If you can say 'slept'. We made it to bed at 4:30am (we had to "think" over a few beers.....) and were awoken at 6:15am by GnR's Welcome to the Jungle)
Somehow we managed to secure the world's oldest raft - it was actually used in WW2. It was kinda neat - until we hit a rapid and realized it had NOTHING to hold on to! We lost one man (our raft was then named "Phil's Overboard" from then on, and he didn't fail to live up to it!) I fell onto _akathisia_ and ladynine landed on me. I think that's where I got "the bruise". Saturday night I took my shirt off and ladynine said "when the hell did you get THAT?" My arm was swollen, hard and intensely purple. Yet, I never felt it.
Saturday night, we met up with the bachelor party for Nacho Libre and played I Never. I got drunk.
Seriously they made the getting married guy wear an uber cheesy wrestling mask while he was rafting all day. Then they duct taped him to a chair with beer in his hands.
Later on, we made one of the rafting guides steal donuts for us. It was a very well planned out stealth mission. Okay, not so well planned, but I got donuts. Then we went and ate a marshmallow then bed.
Sunday was better rafting, but I'm tired of typing, so use your imagination..
Long drive home, and not enough sleep so I'm still wiped out.
Anyway, some photos for your pleasure ...
Just for ladynine
I was given a 'Gothic Garden' as a gift for dogsitting, and I was rather worried as I have a BLACK thumb. I've never had a plant live very long. Here's the progress:
Day One:
I don't know when, but this was before the accidental avalanche. I managed to knock the whole thing over and kill 3/5 plants (including Moonflower, Sensitive plant and Aloe). Doh.
Yesterday:
The still living plants are Dragon coleus and Dragon's tree.
I didn't actually say the pics would be from rafting, did I? hahaha!
This is the only photo I have and I took it when I got home.
"the bruise"
stigmatic, I know you love me :D
Even though the flash wiped out most of the colour.
ladynine noticed this in a convenience store on the way home, so I just had to buy it!
*And, I realize this is public. I'll change it later this week.
We were meeting an old roomate of mine and her husband there, and partway through our travels, I realized I'd left their cellphone number at home. It was safely attached with a sticky note to my Motorcyle Driver's manual. lol. So, then I had to hope that they had brought my cell phone number with them! Except that we didn't get service anyway.
Our directions said to go to the white barn for directions. The white barn was surrounded by caution tape and the doors were all boarded up. lol. We drove around for a while, then oddly I did get service for enough time to check my messages, which fortunately included one telling us where they'd set up camp. So, we found them.
Pulled the tent out of their trunk to realize the three man tent had 2 poles. To hold the fly up. So, we had a beer while pondering what to do. Ended up setting up the 2 man tent for _akathisia_ and I, while ladynine slept in the car. (If you can say 'slept'. We made it to bed at 4:30am (we had to "think" over a few beers.....) and were awoken at 6:15am by GnR's Welcome to the Jungle)
Somehow we managed to secure the world's oldest raft - it was actually used in WW2. It was kinda neat - until we hit a rapid and realized it had NOTHING to hold on to! We lost one man (our raft was then named "Phil's Overboard" from then on, and he didn't fail to live up to it!) I fell onto _akathisia_ and ladynine landed on me. I think that's where I got "the bruise". Saturday night I took my shirt off and ladynine said "when the hell did you get THAT?" My arm was swollen, hard and intensely purple. Yet, I never felt it.
Saturday night, we met up with the bachelor party for Nacho Libre and played I Never. I got drunk.
Seriously they made the getting married guy wear an uber cheesy wrestling mask while he was rafting all day. Then they duct taped him to a chair with beer in his hands.
Later on, we made one of the rafting guides steal donuts for us. It was a very well planned out stealth mission. Okay, not so well planned, but I got donuts. Then we went and ate a marshmallow then bed.
Sunday was better rafting, but I'm tired of typing, so use your imagination..
Long drive home, and not enough sleep so I'm still wiped out.
Anyway, some photos for your pleasure ...
Just for ladynine
I was given a 'Gothic Garden' as a gift for dogsitting, and I was rather worried as I have a BLACK thumb. I've never had a plant live very long. Here's the progress:
Day One:
I don't know when, but this was before the accidental avalanche. I managed to knock the whole thing over and kill 3/5 plants (including Moonflower, Sensitive plant and Aloe). Doh.
Yesterday:
The still living plants are Dragon coleus and Dragon's tree.
I didn't actually say the pics would be from rafting, did I? hahaha!
This is the only photo I have and I took it when I got home.
"the bruise"
stigmatic, I know you love me :D
Even though the flash wiped out most of the colour.
ladynine noticed this in a convenience store on the way home, so I just had to buy it!
*And, I realize this is public. I'll change it later this week.