When you first interview for jobs, there is the standard question, “Which three words best describe you?”
I always had a hard time with this question, and usually tried to throw in “disciplined” to try to get the job.
But now that I am older, I know without any doubt that one of my three words would be “adventurous”.
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And this girl was lacking a little adventure.
So I created one, that has been on my bucket list for a long time.
I went to the sporting goods store, and picked up two inflatable boats.
Micah and the kids filled them up, because the adventurous ones in the family were going to row from Doheny to Britni’s house.
(Excluded: Micah who is sure he is going to die from a shark attack, and there have been local beaches closed down to a local great white. And Pippi, who was going to be Micah’s co-pilot/photographer.)
(Sidenote: Between my Mom and Micah’s shark fears, I actually had a split second-thought. Before we went, I spent about an hour looking at Doheny Beach great white shark YouTube videos. I’ll be honest — because I had my kids with me, I actually made a call to Daddy John who frequents the Dana Point waters. He said he would not worry for one second — so we loaded up.)
We were all getting prepared.
Dash, by emptying his bladder before the adventure.
Pippi by getting all blocked up for some time in the sun.
It was going to be Bella, Dash and Navy in one boat.
Scout and I were going to be in the other boat.
We took off in calm waters, alongside the morning paddle boarders.
At some point, Dash jumped his ship to come into ours, so Bella and Navy were out there solo.
We were in open water, and felt good.
Although, the $39 boats were highly difficult to make any ground on.
And Bella was dominating. She would get twice as far as I would in the same amount of time.
I actually had to put Scout and Dash on the back as my “engines”.
And then, for whatever reason, everything went quiet at once….and I heard it.
Psssssssss.
Just the faintest little sound of a hole with air escaping.
No wonder Tristen was gliding across the top while I was getting deeper and deeper into the water.
Good thing it was a busy day at the harbor.
We flagged down the nicest guy, who towed us in.
At first, we didn’t want to die by shark attack.
And now, we certainly didn’t want to die by drowning.
But now, I am crossing my fingers that we all don’t die from carbon monoxide poisoning.
He finally got us into baby beach, where a huge paddle boarding contest was going on.
Nothing like a humiliating moment, caught by hundreds of spectators.
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So did I get the adventure bug out of me?
No way!
It just added a spark to my adventurous fire!
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