Friday, July 27, 2012

We were supposed to take our kayaks out to the Walleye Hole and someone was supposed to pick us up but Mom and Dad went to Dryden so we waited for them to get back.  Hannah and I read in the camper for the entire morning.  Alan and Scott worked in the shop and Bridget evidently took her bike to the tracks and went blueberry picking.  Hannah and I didn’t even know that she left until Alan came and told us he was taking the four-wheeler thing to see if she was okay.  She ended up picking blueberries for 5 hours!!  Scott and I took off on our kayak excursion.  We went west of Paradise, east of Sunrise and out to the Walleye Hole.  There Scott explored a small part of the shoreline of the island and then fished for walleye.  We took about 5 swipes through the hole and all he caught was a perch but he did lose his bait.  We paddled southeast to the mainland and did a little casting.  I caught a northern but Scott didn’t see it because he was caught on a rock.  By the time he was free, I had flipped the hook so I didn’t have to bring it on my boat.  After casting at little on the shore we cut across to Tivo (Eagle Island) where Scott got out and I got freaked out because it appeared that the vultures and eagles were going to swarm me looking for fish.  I video logged what I thought to be my last minutes on this earth so that there would be proof as to what happened to me but eventually I got far enough away that they lost interest.  I had a meltdown when we returned because we had paddled about seven miles and no one came to get us.  We came in an hour after we had asked them to come get us.  So Dad had found a boat he liked and talked Alan and Hannah into going back to Dryden to look at the boat.  Mom and Bridget had been worried but didn’t have a way to come out and check on us.  After exploding and then crying, I finally pulled myself together confessed and focused on the abundant grace that God has provided me.  As mom pointed out I am exercising a lot and my hormones are probably pretty out of whack from it but it is no excuse for acting the way I did.  I guess I’m not perfect! J After dinner (which I skipped because I needed to soak my muscles in the cold water), Bridget and Hannah went to Jeff’s to watch the opening of the Olympics.  Scott and I went to bed and watched a really stupid movie.