Fun Date Night
Jul. 22nd, 2005 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHi,
So for our "date night" last night, Annie and I rented a canoe and went paddling on the Charles river near Newton/Wellsley.
It was a lot of fun. And although it's been almost two decades since I was last in a canoe, we weren't forced to make use of our life jackets.
I wish I'd done something like this sooner though. I really like being on/in the water. And while I'm not about to go swimming in the Charles anytime soon, it was nice to be out there paddling along. Along with the various ducks/swans/geese, we did mange to catch sight of a heron. There were also numerous dragonflies which made Annie happy and kept most of the noxious insects away.
We also had some quality conversation time when we weren't paddling under I-90, I-95, and various interchanges.
It might be fun to bring along a few extra people next time...maybe get kayaks instead (although the one and only time I was ever in one of those I rolled it like a d20 in a washing machine).
later
Tom
So for our "date night" last night, Annie and I rented a canoe and went paddling on the Charles river near Newton/Wellsley.
It was a lot of fun. And although it's been almost two decades since I was last in a canoe, we weren't forced to make use of our life jackets.
I wish I'd done something like this sooner though. I really like being on/in the water. And while I'm not about to go swimming in the Charles anytime soon, it was nice to be out there paddling along. Along with the various ducks/swans/geese, we did mange to catch sight of a heron. There were also numerous dragonflies which made Annie happy and kept most of the noxious insects away.
We also had some quality conversation time when we weren't paddling under I-90, I-95, and various interchanges.
It might be fun to bring along a few extra people next time...maybe get kayaks instead (although the one and only time I was ever in one of those I rolled it like a d20 in a washing machine).
later
Tom
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Date: 2005-07-22 02:03 pm (UTC)Sounds like a *great* time. I often have wished to be out on a boat on the Charles in town. Something in the iconography of my early childhood marks that as the quintessential New England experience. But for me, the ideal would be a single or double skull, to relive my 2 semesters of glory days failing to qualify for the crew team when I was 14.
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Date: 2005-07-22 02:11 pm (UTC)Quabbin. It travels pretty far now.
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Date: 2005-07-22 02:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 02:28 pm (UTC)they flooded how many towns to make Quabbin? it was something like five, IIRC.
re: towns
Date: 2005-07-22 06:32 pm (UTC)re: if it runs out of water
Date: 2005-07-22 02:28 pm (UTC)