kayaking

I was in a nice hotel in some foreign place. I think my dad and I were on a trip or maybe it was my friend (BB). I had just realized I needed to check out that day at noon and it was almost noon. I had a TV on up in the corner. I think it was playing the news. I went to the shower which was in the corner of the room. I reached in to get something I had left in there and accidentally turned the shower on and got wet. Not a happy shock. I decided I had to hurry and pack and get out of there. I stopped to look out the hotel window and saw a hill of grass and wood beyond that. Why hadn't I gone out there. I wanted a bit of an adventure ... some nature... It was just a walk to get there. I'm not sure if it was laziness? did I think too much about the how's and when's?  Next time.

I was thinking to myself, I needed to tell people about the peach ice cream I had near the hotel. It was amazing and it felt like a find.

Then I was kayaking, I think with my dad. We were having a good time. I think my step mom showed up too.  We were going along really nicely and I thought I really needed to do this more often. We looked over at a long kayak type boat. It was full of men in blue uniforms, it looked as though they were from the civil war. They were.... They were kayaking next to us, but almost in another bit of water. They were in snow and the water was freezing and their kayak was barely keeping their heads above water. I felt bad for them and lucky that I wasn't kayaking in that cold of water. They all looked a little blue.

We continued on and I looked down at my paddles that looked more like fins. They were flopsy. I saw in the water out front a different paddle end that was more stiff. I was going to toss it and after a second look and thought ... I thought that would be a much better paddle to kayak with. It would be a faster and more controlled ride.