Fun Date Night

[bluegargantua]

Hi,

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

Comments

re: the Charles

[etherial.livejournal.com]

We used to sail on the Charles in Cambridge. We joked that if someone fell in, it wouldn't be worth turning back for them, since they would have dissolved by the time you got back to them.