Well on Sunday, a friend and I decided to go rafting down the Bow seeing as the weather finally decided to man up and behave for at least the 3-4hrs we needed to float our way peacefully (and sometimes not so peacefully) down the river. So after we packed up two rafts, two coolers, two of the best chicks around and 2 oars into 2 cars (a day of 2's clearly), off we went from our town of Dodge to park car #1 at Prince's Island. 25mins later (and yup 1 detour) we arrived at Bowness park. After much spazzing around trying to inflate 2 (yup again) rafts and carry our stuff to the Bow from our far parking spot (well it wasn't that far),and our fighting with knots and 80 feet of rope, finally we were ready.
A dazzling afternoon, though hazy, with the mostly calm waters, lots of friendly rafters, we were settling in for a great afternoon.
Partway through we come across this "beach" and I definitely use the term losely with about 20 people packed on essentially a horizontal driveway. Why anyone would want to suntan and laze around on a driveway all day? You tell me!! Just as I go to forget about this crazy fake beach/driveway business, I see this child rise out of the water like the Vampire Lestat NO lie, and has a completely RED mouth, chin, in fact all the way up to her/it's nose!!! Like she has been eating raw meat!! And then with a crazed look on her face, this evil child started swimming and splashing like a great big carnivorous crane!! Made me want to row that boat right down the river and into the sane arms of the rapids!
(Above picture: Crazy cranepire kid!)
We then headed on past Sven the Swede in his Speedo (say THAT fast 3 times!!) and headed on down towards the lovely downtown.
After a much needed and fantastic scenic boat ride with a good friend, we were coming to the end of our journey and lo and behold, ducks!! (I love ducks!!) I was trying to get a good picture of the duck when my friend started feeding it!! The pure joy one feels watching wild animals trust you for just that second, even if it is just for food! It was that simple pleasure one finds in animals.
And then there was my favorite duck, Speedy Gonduckas! After we started feeding the first two, you should have seen this little guy just come a blazing up the Bow towards us and the peanut buttery pretzels. The rest of the ducks come a sauntering up the Bow quack quacking their quacks towards us but nope not Speedy G! Ah poor lil guy must had some severe munchies!!
Another great, lazy day outdoors in what can be a beautiful city when summer decides to show up!!
And let's not forget Sven, and his little beach chair habitat in about the space of my closet!
-Lil One 
HAHA!! Oh man this was great! I could feel the breeze going through my hair and the sun blazing from above. Such great imagery.
ReplyDeleteOh Sven... I tried saying that three times really fast but ended up with Sven the Spede in a Sweedo. LOL!
Aww, I love ducks too! Once my mum and I were in Bowness park watching the ducks. This little one walked right up in front of us (side profile view of the little guy) and he pooped! It shot out like a bullet! It was a bullet poop! On a diagonal slant no less. We laughed so hard! And then he walked away.
Your post makes me want to float down the Bow... and with a cooler full of snacks I might add.
Speaking of snacks...
Bullet poop!!!! OMG I almost peed my pants when I read that!!! HAHAHA!!! We laughed so hard. And then he walked away! Ha great!!!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of snacks, I could use a snack, oh wait aren't I trying to cut down on the snackage??? HA!