Temp: 26 degrees
Now today is a nice day - not too hot, but beautiful all the same.
I woke up early, and instead of waking Carole, I went outside and weeded the plant beds in the front of the house for about an hour. Then I went in and made a quick breakfast of omlette and hashbrowns.
I said to Carole, "what do you say we take the dingy out to Sasamat Lake, just for an hour or two - let's be there by noon to beat some of the weekend afternoon crowd?"
"Sounds like a plan! Of course, we'll need to go buy a high-capacity air pump though, it'll take forever to blow-up using our little foot pump..."
So we went to Canadian Tire and bought a nice big pump, and since it was now noon, and there was a Quiznos next door, we swung in for a quick lunch. Now it's "off to the lake!"
I figure there were about 800 people at White Pines this afternoon, but after we got the boat into the water and paddled out to the middle of the lake, the sounds of the crowds faded away, and it was pretty much like we had the lake to ourselves - well, save for 3 or 4 other couples out in dingys, which we'd occasionally drift past. It was definitely a beautiful and peacful day, gently rocking and slowly drifting around the lake.
Well, it was a little bit of work... when we very first pushed off the shore, I pushed too hard with the oars (stupid!!!) and snapped one in half, so all of my paddling was with one oar. It wasn't a crisis, we made do, but it certainly would have been less work with two oars, lol. There was a bit of a breeze that would slowly push us toward shore, so every 20 minutes or so, I'd have to spend 5 or 6 minutes paddling back to the middle of the lake again. I didn't feel it then, but I'd be pretty sore the next morning.
Anyway, after about two hours of sun exposure on the water, I figured we should call it quits for the day. Sure, we could have stayed out there all day, but short and sweet turned out to be perfect. You know what they say about too much of a good thing!
We bought a couple of Ice Creams from the beach vendor ($7 for two cones, lol, but it's part of the experience!) and made our way back to the car. Once we could see ourselves in the mirrors, oh yeah, we got plenty of sun. Perfect timing, leaving when we did.
We spent the evening playing Scenei-it!, which we haven't done in quite a long time. I won both games, which made Carole pretty upset, but I think she's over it now.
Posted by Calvin at August 13, 2006 07:42 AM