Jul
11
Redeeming myself after a month long vacation from blogging
Written by Micaela. Filed Under friends, life, micaela, personal, summer, thoughts
You may have noticed that I have not written in here for a LONG time! Well I have good reasons… well sort of. I have had a crazily busy spring and start-of-summer. I have been away about 7 out of the last 10 weekends, I’d say. But don’t feel sorry for me, all of those weekends, aside from Brownie camp and a training weekend for a camp in Toronto, have been strictly for fun purposes - for example, a concert in Toronto (Leonard Cohen - AMAZING SHOW), a musical in Toronto (Dirty Dancing - also an amazing weekend!), visiting Kent’s family in Toronto, a weekend at my friend Rebecca’s cottage at Turkey Point, and I spent this past week at my best friend Michelle’s cottage in Muskoka. An excellent week of lots of boating, sunbathing, ATV-ing, waterskiing, tubing, campfire-ing, eating, and reading. I had a wonderful time hanging out with my two longest best friends and our boyfriends. And I will admit it - I was not one of the ones doing the waterskiing. Tubing I am okay with, but waterskiing just seems over the top scary to me, weirdly enough, considering I grew up snow-skiing and snowboarding just about every day in the winter. I have tried surfing while I was in South Africa, and I am not afraid of things like roller coasters or high diving boards. This week I decided it was probably because, while I swam in lakes and oceans tons as a child, I didn’t spend any time on boats (besides canoes) and I think I only have one memory of tubing as a kid and it does not end very well! We definitely were not deprived children, don’t get me wrong, but my parents preferred vacations (trips out west to visit family, camping trips everywhere, road trips through the States and Canada, trips to Disney World, Europe, ski vacations in Vermont…) to cottaging. I think I’ll be the same way when I’m a parent. Cottaging is relaxing and all, but I definitely prefer the excitement and culture that you get while travelling.
Anyways back to my point, today I visited Katelyn at work and I asked her if she had ever been waterskiing, and she answered “NO! I’m scared of it!” So I’ve decided that this is one thing we can blame on our childhood! Unless any of my sisters would like to prove me wrong… but I am okay with the idea that I will never be a waterskiier. Kent is naturally good at every sport he tries, he even tried waterskiing with one ski this week, and he will randomly pop out with facts like “Did you know I won the grade 11 athletic award in high school?” and “Did you know that I won an Ontario doubles tennis tournament when I was a kid?” So he has no fears about sports and is convinced that I HAVE to try waterskiing by the end of the summer, and I would be great at it, and why don’t I just try? I’m not so sure… my answer is MAYBE.
Now I am back home for the next few weekends, until Kent and I head to Toronto (again! We should really just move there…) for his friends’ wedding. Which is fine with me.. I am a social butterfly but I am also a homebody. Hence the fact that it is Friday night and all of my friends are out having fun and I am sitting at home waiting for my boyfriend to get home from work and listening to an outdoor concert that is going on in my town. Although I’m not sure anyone actually has to go to the concert because it is such a small town that everyone must be able to hear it from their decks! I love being home as long as I know that I have other options, then it seems more like a choice than simply my own loser-ness showing though. Tomorrow night I am heading to an outdoor Rascall Flatts concert with two friends from work and a few others.
I admit that I have not been taking any pictures this summer that I can post, well actually that isn’t true, I have been but they are all on my best friend Michelle’s camera. She lost her camera cord and so they haven’t made their way onto facebook yet, so here is a picture of me at her cottage from last summer!
Hope everyone else has been having an excellent summer too!!
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yay I get to be the first one to prove you wrong! I went water skiing at the houseboat in Alberta and didn’t want to stop!
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Okayyy… but you were still young enough back then to not be afraid of killing yourself.
I love waterskiing! When I was living in Esnagami they had homemade waterskiis made of two planks of wood and a pair of rubber boots and I was quite skilled on them, if I can say so myself. I can’t wait to go waterskiing again on Gord and Kathy’s boat! It isn’t scary per se, but it takes a lot of upper body strength and endurance.
Dad tricked me into waterskiing once when we were kids. Seriously! When we were at that cottage/campground (starts with an R) with the Poels and Aarts’ and everyone got really sick because the septic system was draining into the lake.
Anyway, I was standing in the water because I thought that I might want to try, but was just watching at that point, and dad was beside me. He said ‘here Erica, give me your foot’ and he shoved my feet into the skis, handed me the handle and said ‘hang on!’
Everyone else wasn’t doing very well (falling right away) but I made it around the lake three times!
ahaha.. okay I stand corrected. I guess Kate and I will have to jump on the waterskiing train because apparently there are some family skills.
I’ve never been and I want to gooooooo. I also want to go sky diving, bungee jumping, cliff jumping, and on a hot air balloon ride. ALL in one day! hehehe
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- also terrified of water skiing
- i’m too scared to try because i’m sure the first time i do i WILL break my legs
- i also feel the same way about cottaging. i will cottage at the in-laws, but never want my own. i’d rather spend the money on trips! plus, i think it has to do with living on a farm…that’s already kind of cottage-y
I remember one time Laura saying that she wants to have a house in the country and a cottage in the city (I think she said Toronto) which I thought was a cool idea. Instead of traveling to a remote area for the weekend/week/summer go enjoy the city.
I DID say that Leah! I think I thought of that while watching a blue jays games looking up at those condos right by the lake and thought wouldn’t it be fun to have a weekend place there and do fun city things on weekends and then go home to the farm all week?
Maybe we should go in together on this real estate micaela!
I am also afraid of water skiing girls, and I think it is due to our same upbringings.
I would be more likely to get on a tube, however I am not used to boats at all!
I like City-Vacations ALOT. I have been to NYC twice, and Chicago once, and I feel like I was half meant to be a person who lives in a crazy city like that!