Stranded!
On Lake Superior.
After our walk, hubby & I came home to a message on the machine from our friends who wanted to take their new (used) boat on a long trip to a lighthouse on Superior. Good times! So I ate a bowl of curry for lunch, showered, & we headed off to the boat.
Got out of the portage, past the breakers & the park where hubby & I got married, & stopped the boat to get the kids (and ourselves) piled into sweatshirts for the long, fast, cold trip up the lake. Everyone ready, everything set, except then the engines wouldn’t start.
& they wouldn’t start & wouldn’t start & wouldn’t start.
So the plan was to wait for them to cool &/or for the generator to charge up the batteries & try again. Finally, we called a friend for a tow. & then we had an hour of just floating on Superior in the sun, drinking a margarita, waiting to be rescued. Lovely. So much better than racing toward a lighthouse & racing back to beat the sunset!
So the rescue arrived & began towing us back to town, which would’ve taken around 3 hours at the rate we were going. Instead, we went for about an hour & towing friend called a friend in Florida to see if we could tie up to his dock. Once at the dock, hubby & friend’s hubby left us with the kids while they took the boat into town to get the cars.
A fun adventure was enjoyed by all involved! Once we were packed up, we called in for pizzas, picked them up & went back to their house for pizza & an evening of cribbage.
So, let’s document the food-bev horrors of yesterday:
Breakfast: smoothie
Lunch: small bowl of tofu curry
Misc throughout the day: one strawberry, 12 Doritos, small handful of m & ms, 2 beers, 2 margaritas, 2 rum & cokes
Dinner: 4 pieces of pizza (don’t panic, this was a round pizza cut into small rectangles…when I put the 4 pieces together, they looked like one medium slice)
Exercise: still got my hour walk in
Update: eh gads! I just realized…no salad?! That means I mistakenly gave myself a food star yesterday when I didn’t earn it. Just deleted it.
Today:
Breakfast out: 2 eggs over medium with 2 small slices of nisu toast
Lunch: salad with HB egg
Dinner: leftover tofu curry
Snack: 3 strawberries & a diet root beer (I hardly ever drink soda since I’m so busy just trying to get my 4 pints of water in every day, but tonight felt like a root beer kinda night).
Exercise: 70-min walk on the beach with hubby & dog. Beautiful night for it & hubby just sent his 5th chapter to his diss director, so it was a nice way to celebrate that victory.
Tomorrow I start week 2 of the C25K.
hey sweetie! ahhhh, time on the lake. Despite the break-down, it sounds awesome! I’d love to have a boat. Ain’t happening. I miss margaritas, too. :: sigh :: Oh well, it’s for a good cause.
Sounds like a fabulous place to be stranded! And w/margaritas??? Definitely heaven.
Good luck with week 2!
I’m sorry. I had to laugh. One strawberry? LOL.
Oh, yeah. Did I mention I was in competition with 3 children for the strawberries? I was lucky to get the one
thanks getupnow! I’m trying to motivate myself down to the basement to get my running clothes out of the dryer & GET MOVING! I really hope week 2 is okay, but I have to remember that this is just day one of that week & we’re doing this slowly for a good reason.