Saturday, February 6, 2010

The epic expedition of the SS Imaginaaation and the SS Octopi

So yesterday I expressed my love of kayaking, and this morning I was invited by Keryn's mum and later Keryn herself to join them on their kayak trip. I accepted, and at 2PM today I was picked up from my place to accompany them to Lake... lake... uh. I can't remember what it's called, but it's a lake. When trying to recall the name I somehow come up with Udders... I don't know why.

Lake Udder was beautiful; as we approached it I saw a blue expanse of water surrounded by rolling green hills, which were scattered with sheep and ducks and reeds.

We drifted, often aimlessly, often with determination and purpose, around the lake, every so often running into Keryn's parents (at one point encountering a bald man in a very green speedboat. We laughed at him and he put on his hat. Weird), and occasionally running into these two dragonflies who were... *ahem* a bit busy.

We dubbed our ships the SS Imaaginaaation (Keryn's) and the SS Octopi (mine). Let me stress that my ship has 16 tentacles. I also never fell off it, which is a plus.

So after all this, we aimlessly drifted back to shore for a snack. Mum made me bring muffins. As we were eating, Keryn gave a shout and I jumped up, expecting the dragonflies or a wasp or, I don't know, A YETI, only to find that the cause of the shout was two small, white, fluffy bichons. Thanks, Keryn, for instigating a shitting of the bricks incident.

So we ate Mum's orange and honey muffins and proceeded to find the trampoline. First we tried a strange red contraption which actually turned out to be a low set of monkey bars. Thank God we didn't try to bounce on it. Next we found another red thing, but this turned out to be a slide. Our third and final guess actually was a trampoline! Champion, Keryn, we did it!

We took one last spin around the lake, and then packed up and set off at 5PM. Three hours of sun and fun, and many thanks to a portion of the Knight clan for having me!

Aaand that was the majority of my day. How is it that I get up at 9.30AM and still accomplish almost nothing? Ugh.

Laters, biznitches :D

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