Sorry its a book
Well since people have been bugging me to write in this thing for a while, and i had a fairly interesting day, i guess ill update.
Earlier today, Hannah and I could not figure out what to do. We wanted to do something outside and fun. We thought of the zoo but it was really hot, we thought of the indians game but we didnt have tickets, we even thought of cedar point but it was too expensive. Finally hannah goes online and she finds this canoe rental place in Rock Creek. We decided that this looked like a good idea, so me, hannah, and mandie hit the road to start our canoe trip. We finally get close and drive up this long winding dirt road to pull up to the place and park in the grass. We walk up there and this man with no teeth and indian feathers on his head is the one renting us the canoe. When we finish up the papers that say we cant sue him if we die, and he finishes telling us that if we die, our souls will dwell with the river spirits, we go and put all of our stuff in the car. We leave our purses, cell phones, etc in the car so if we flip they wont get wet. Before we head out, he tells us our land marks we need to go by so that we know where the pick up point is, where he'll meet us to get us and the canoe, and take us back to our cars. These are his directions: First, there's a log jam at the beginning, so you'll have to take your boats out and walk them around. There's a life jacket on a tree where you should get out. After that you'll see two bridges, the second will be the 2 hour mark. Eventually you'll see a row of houses, and thats how you know youre about 20 mins out. Then there will be a big house high on a hill thats hard to see, and it'l have a green roof. On the other side from the house there will be a little ramp going down to the river to pull your canoe out. Also there are two poles in the water, but you probably cant see them because the waters too high. Oh, and theres a big log on the side of the river.
After those awesomely specific directions, we get the canoe and go down to the water and start canoeing. We do ok, steering was shaky at first but we eventually got the hang of it. We had decided in the 3.5 hour course, and we were setting out around 2. Well we're going a long for a while, and only almost tip once because we ran into a few logs, but we were doing good. We see the first bridge, and then the second bridge. Okay well the second bridge is the two hour mark so we keep going...and going...and going and we're looking for this row of houses now. We see a street just happens to butt up against the river, so there's a long row of houses. At one point we were singing the Gilligans island theme really loud and got very strange looks. Then we're in the middle of nowhere again, and then more houses. We end up having like 3 rows of houses, so we give up on this as a landmark and are still looking for this green roofed house and this place to bring boats down to the water. We we keep going for a really long time and we never see the damn house. We tried to switch places and one point and almost tipped over, and filled the canoe with a bunch of water. So now hannahs sitting in like 3 inches of water in the back of the boat. We keep asking people on the side of the river for directions and they keep telling us to keep going. So we do. A pontoon boat of people passes us 4 times, and laughs at us. The last time we ask them for directions and they tell us that we went way to far, but there's a dock by this covered bridge about a mile and a half down. So we keep going even longer, and the water starts to get shallower and also begins to get rougher. Rough in a canoe is not welcome. We get to the covered bridge after almost tipping in the pseudo rapids and decide to get out since we saw people outside this building.
We pull the canoe out onto a muddy riverbank and start walking up. Picture this real quick: Three girls covered in mud, me and hannah are in sports bras and shorts, and mandie is in a bakini with no shorts. None of us have shoes on. We wander out of the woods a bit downstream from these people, and come upon a girl behind an outhouse, who we soon discover is smoking pot. After we explain our situation of being lost and way after our pick up time, she offers us her cell phone and some weed, so we use her cell to try our parents to try to get the canoe place's number. No answer at anyones house. So she gets her boyfriend and he takes us up to the apparent bar that we crawled out of the river behind. We walk into the bar, which is completely full of huge biker men and theyre girls, and ask to use the phone. We finally find the number and call the guy to pick us up. When we hang up the phone, some girl by the bar heard our story and was drunk, so she bought us all shots.
Just to recap, we are all standing in a bar, half naked with a bunch of biker men doing shots...just wanted to clarify...
Finally after we drag the canoe a long ways to the parking lot to the guy, he chuckles to himself and goes "how many times did you girls tip over?" We said none and he looked really surprised so we ask why. "Well this is a one person canoe, you guys should have taken a 3 person one." Well apparently we're too dumb to tell the difference, and that would explain why me and hannah sat on the floor getting soaked the whole time.
Then we got back, got the car, and got mac donalds and that was our fabulous day. So if you ever want to go canoeing, dont go to sketchy canoe places.
Earlier today, Hannah and I could not figure out what to do. We wanted to do something outside and fun. We thought of the zoo but it was really hot, we thought of the indians game but we didnt have tickets, we even thought of cedar point but it was too expensive. Finally hannah goes online and she finds this canoe rental place in Rock Creek. We decided that this looked like a good idea, so me, hannah, and mandie hit the road to start our canoe trip. We finally get close and drive up this long winding dirt road to pull up to the place and park in the grass. We walk up there and this man with no teeth and indian feathers on his head is the one renting us the canoe. When we finish up the papers that say we cant sue him if we die, and he finishes telling us that if we die, our souls will dwell with the river spirits, we go and put all of our stuff in the car. We leave our purses, cell phones, etc in the car so if we flip they wont get wet. Before we head out, he tells us our land marks we need to go by so that we know where the pick up point is, where he'll meet us to get us and the canoe, and take us back to our cars. These are his directions: First, there's a log jam at the beginning, so you'll have to take your boats out and walk them around. There's a life jacket on a tree where you should get out. After that you'll see two bridges, the second will be the 2 hour mark. Eventually you'll see a row of houses, and thats how you know youre about 20 mins out. Then there will be a big house high on a hill thats hard to see, and it'l have a green roof. On the other side from the house there will be a little ramp going down to the river to pull your canoe out. Also there are two poles in the water, but you probably cant see them because the waters too high. Oh, and theres a big log on the side of the river.
After those awesomely specific directions, we get the canoe and go down to the water and start canoeing. We do ok, steering was shaky at first but we eventually got the hang of it. We had decided in the 3.5 hour course, and we were setting out around 2. Well we're going a long for a while, and only almost tip once because we ran into a few logs, but we were doing good. We see the first bridge, and then the second bridge. Okay well the second bridge is the two hour mark so we keep going...and going...and going and we're looking for this row of houses now. We see a street just happens to butt up against the river, so there's a long row of houses. At one point we were singing the Gilligans island theme really loud and got very strange looks. Then we're in the middle of nowhere again, and then more houses. We end up having like 3 rows of houses, so we give up on this as a landmark and are still looking for this green roofed house and this place to bring boats down to the water. We we keep going for a really long time and we never see the damn house. We tried to switch places and one point and almost tipped over, and filled the canoe with a bunch of water. So now hannahs sitting in like 3 inches of water in the back of the boat. We keep asking people on the side of the river for directions and they keep telling us to keep going. So we do. A pontoon boat of people passes us 4 times, and laughs at us. The last time we ask them for directions and they tell us that we went way to far, but there's a dock by this covered bridge about a mile and a half down. So we keep going even longer, and the water starts to get shallower and also begins to get rougher. Rough in a canoe is not welcome. We get to the covered bridge after almost tipping in the pseudo rapids and decide to get out since we saw people outside this building.
We pull the canoe out onto a muddy riverbank and start walking up. Picture this real quick: Three girls covered in mud, me and hannah are in sports bras and shorts, and mandie is in a bakini with no shorts. None of us have shoes on. We wander out of the woods a bit downstream from these people, and come upon a girl behind an outhouse, who we soon discover is smoking pot. After we explain our situation of being lost and way after our pick up time, she offers us her cell phone and some weed, so we use her cell to try our parents to try to get the canoe place's number. No answer at anyones house. So she gets her boyfriend and he takes us up to the apparent bar that we crawled out of the river behind. We walk into the bar, which is completely full of huge biker men and theyre girls, and ask to use the phone. We finally find the number and call the guy to pick us up. When we hang up the phone, some girl by the bar heard our story and was drunk, so she bought us all shots.
Just to recap, we are all standing in a bar, half naked with a bunch of biker men doing shots...just wanted to clarify...
Finally after we drag the canoe a long ways to the parking lot to the guy, he chuckles to himself and goes "how many times did you girls tip over?" We said none and he looked really surprised so we ask why. "Well this is a one person canoe, you guys should have taken a 3 person one." Well apparently we're too dumb to tell the difference, and that would explain why me and hannah sat on the floor getting soaked the whole time.
Then we got back, got the car, and got mac donalds and that was our fabulous day. So if you ever want to go canoeing, dont go to sketchy canoe places.