James, Matt, and I went to the state park by our house this weekend. The weather was fabulous – 80 degrees and sunny! I wanted to get out on my paddleboard one last time before it got too cold so I convinced Matt to come on the board with me (James wanted to go fishing and I didn’t want to go out on the lake alone).
Earlier this summer, Matt and I took my board the ENTIRE LENGTH of Squantz Pond and back – we knew we didn’t want to do that again but OOPS almost did because of the current. We very lazily paddled north and were surprised when we looked at the houses on shore and realized we were in Sherman. I started paddling back the other way and it was HARD. The current was blowing directly north…no wonder we made it so far so fast. James called to ask where we were and in the maybe ONE MINUTE I took a break from paddling to answer the phone, we had drifted back three or four houses. Also, there were some surprisingly large waves hitting us even when there were no boats nearby. I was like THIS IS IT, THIS IS HOW WE GO. (Maybe I should start a new hashtag for this blog… #waysialmostdied)
This one boat kept driving by us repeatedly and we just thought they were being assholes because they were coming REALLY close. After their third pass, they asked us if we wanted to be towed back to shore and we were like OMG YES. Matt stayed on the board and I got into the boat. It was a family with a mom, dad, and two kids around Matt’s age. I mentioned something about my husband waiting at the boat launch for us and they were like “…if your husband’s at the boat launch, who’s on the board??” I was like “Oh…that’s just my little brother!” (Matt later got mad that I didn’t state *gay* little brother because he thought the son was cute.) We got back to the launch in minutes and thank god because it probably would have taken an hour to paddle. Woof.
Anyway…that’s how paddleboarding season 2K19 ended. Being towed to shore by strangers. Stay tuned for paddleboarding season 2K20 which will include fun highlights such as “Will Any of My Friends Get Their Own Board?” and “Let’s Finally Bring This Baby On Candlewood” and “Paddleboarding On Candlewood Is A Terrible Idea #waysialmostdied”.
Until our next adventure!
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