Tricia's Partial Mutterings

Balancing Act

Have YOU ever stood up in a canoe? How about stood on the seat? Well, have you ever stood on the tip of the canoe? :o) Well I did! Yay! It was actually pretty cool. This weekend I went up to camp to work AFS (AIDS Family Services). It's the only weekend that we donate our camp to non-girl scouts and one of the only weekends that there are men up there. On one of our small breaks without campers at canoes, Heidi and Mav paddled me out to the middle of Honor Lake and I got to play! I had an audience too for a little bit. They really wanted me to fall off. I stood up in the canoe and then straddled the sides and slowly made it to the nose. When I got up there, of course I had to yell, "I'm king of the world!" I actually suprised myself with my balancing skills. I stood on one foot, faced both directions, and even hopped. I even balanced up there while Mav paddled because of the drift. The first time I was up there Mav estimated I was up for about 7 minutes. I even did a back dive off the nose. It was great. I need to play more often. Heidi even wrote about my amazing entertainment value. The place and resources of camp is what I missed the most. Not the food, not the drama, and not the no starting of cars and waiting a few hours for AAA.