As the wind picked up yesterday, so did our excitement. We were going to sail the whitecaps. Now you would think that when our boat was being crashed against the dock, we might have realized that there is such a thing as too much wind, but undaunted, we began to paddle out.
As we were flipped around with the captain hollering instructions while he calmly held the rudder, my calm spirit (hee hee) was busy hoisting the sail, setting the jib, trying to stay in the boat and thinking unkind thoughts of putting the captain overboard, except I didn't know how to sail home. We were flying across the lake with the boat pitching, the waves crashing and me thinking unChristian thoughts.
We did live through it after we had a crash landing back at the dock much to the humor of those sitting comforably in their lawn chairs on the shore. Knowing that my sweetie just can't sit still, that will never be an event at our house. We decided we would start out our sailing voyages with a little calmer winds! At least life is never dull :)
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