Floating down a river.

This past weekend I took a time out. I went for a float down a river with New Dude, my brother and his brother.

It was a stressful morning because I NEEDED to run before we went and sat for a few hours. I hadn't been able to run in about 3-4 days so my bitchiness was coming out. So we got up early, went for a run and then had a mad dash of about 30 minutes to get 3 people through the showers, all the towels, drinks and whatever else we needed gathered and out the door. We had to stop to grab some food which, apparently 9:00 is a busy time for fast food places on weekend.

We were running behind, which was stressing me out a little because the way the talked about the reservations we HAD to be there at a certain time or bad things would happened. Also getting 4 people to one place at one time, was a lot harder that I had thought. I still keep forgetting this fact.

As a whole we were a little late but it was okay. About 20 minutes after we were there, we had a map, a dry bag, our snacks and drinks, and were floating down a river.

We went about 6 miles and it took us about 4-5 hours. At one point we were all very nervous that the trip was going to be ending very soon. Only to worry about an hour later that it would never end and that we were lost and never getting home.

The day itself was amazing. The water was calm, the sun was shining, the clouds were fluffy and all different kinds of shapes. There was a slight breeze that took care any little bugs.

We had nice supply of snacks and drinks, no cell phones, and mostly just good company.

While stopping for lunch we found a deer skull, trash and a trolling motor. We kept the skull.

We end up with some stories, like how my brother and New Dude's brother ended up flipping their canoe. It was due to over confidence,  my brother freezing when thing started to go wrong, and it was all done in SLOW motion. Quite funny. New Dude were able to watch and then help them out and flipped their canoe. There was a moment or two when New Dude and I almost flipped our canoe as well.

 

What I really enjoyed was, after getting there, was to sit back, relax, enjoy nature and just get outside with the people you love. Was it a super riveting adventure? Eh, when we almost flipped, but mostly it was just enjoying the day. Really, just sitting on a river, hearing both animals and trains, and enjoying the day. Being there, in the moment.

 

I also learned that floating in a canoe is a great way to learn how your communications skills are with your special someone else. New Dude and I did well, but I was having word issues. I also learned that I like to float down a river more straight then cutting back and forth to correct the direction we were going. I think New Dude was more just let us just float and see what happens.

 

For anyone else still new in a relationship, or even old, I'd suggest a canoe trip to see how it goes. See if you're on the same page and if not can you figure out a middle ground? I'd say sort of. I was up front of the canoe but I didn't really do much to move the canoe. If New Dude didn't paddle, then we didn't move. I don't know if it is the different in weight or my poor paddling skills. Either way, we'll just have to do it again to find out.

 

 

Another weekend has arrived. What are you going to do to make an adventure? If you cannot make an adventure are you going to at least get out there to enjoy the day or the moment? Are you going to really be there or just take pictures/snapchats/picture texts about it?

Red Jacket

 

My sister came and visited this weekend with her little bundle of joy.

 

She forgot to bring an article of clothing home with her. Which considering all the thing a baby has, isn't too bad.

 

 

 

New Dude tried on the jacket... but it wasn't quite fitting.

 

The funny thing about the jacket is that it first the bear, his name is Fuzzy, everywhere but his arms.

 

So currently her baby is the size of a bear. No wonder I think she is getting cutter.

 

I'm getting excited for winter.. I have outfits to buy and babies to be torment.. I mean show my love.

 





 Happy random Tuesday.

Long Hair

We all know that I have long hair. We also agree that is brown, curly and that I kind of love it. I even wrote a whole post about it called: Curly is Best.

New Dude likes me hair. He likes long hair, and I've even held off cutting it to donate it, just to make sure when I do that it will still have lots of length to it.

Now as a female with long hair there are a few things that you come to accept.

You'll go through more conidition, shampoo, and hair styling prodcuts then those with short hair.

That fleace, even though it is super soft and great for the winter, will be nothing but a magnet for catching your hair.

Dust bunnies are your fault. They won't get nearly as large without the help of lost hair.

Working around food always requires it to be tied back.

The fantom hair which feels like a spider web but it isn't trapped somewhere on your person happens every once in a while.

It will even get caught in your clothes for a feeling you cannot get rid of, like in your bar, a pair of pants, shirt, or even underware.

Guys don't know about this. Or at least they don't know about the full extent of how hair can just creep into everything and anything.

New Dude has experinced the random pulling along strain of hair out of his zipper before. Hey, stop getting weird on me, it happens when you do laundry together.

The newest and best experience he has thus far happened on Tuesday.

He was sitting with his brother, talking, enjoying life when there was this weird tickeling sensation going on in his boot. It felt like a piece of grass was in his boot.

He sat there and took off his boot, took off his sock to find my HAIR and not a blade of grass. My hair inside of HIS sock wrapped around his toes. How in the world did it get there no idea. How long had it been there, probably all day. Why did it just now start to feel weird? No idea.

These brown locks might be pretty, soft, and fluffy, but beware, the hair will get everywhere!

Do you have any random places hair has ended up and you had no idea? Let me know what you think by leaving a comment below!