Wahoo!!!
How many times in your life has the anticipation of an event been more fun than the reality?
I am happy to report that the first annual girl's only weekend at Styx River met and even exceeded the anticipation!!
4 kayaks, tubes to rent, more GOOD food than we could all eat, and a tightknit group of coworkers who we now know, enjoy each others company at work AND play. We work together well, now we know we play together well. The behemoth is not such a behemoth that we can all be in the kitchen at the same time, so we set up an outside cooking station. I tend to do that anyway, because his airconditioner struggles these days to keep him cool, and cooking inside just taxes it more. Besides, everyone knows that food cooked outside tastes better anyway. Everyone had their jobs to do, and we did them well, without a lot of direction from anybody.
One of my coworkers, "Wee One" went with me on Fri to begin the setup. We have a humongous screen room we call space mountain because that is what it resembles when up. It is 30'x30' and octogon shaped. Very easy to assemble, 2 short women can put it up. Great for feeding a bunch of people, playing games, etc.
She and I got busy the next morning and filled up water balloons, and took turns watching for our other participants. Both were successfully greeted with a barrage of water grenades, and then allowed to pull from the ammunition stockpile, and to fill their super soakers. Wonderful in the 90 degree weather.
We played Farkle the first night, stayed up until past 0100, and slept in the behemoth because as soon as we had our air mattresses up in space mountain the wind blew a couple of gusts with rain sideways. The weather report promised more, and of course, we didn't get any more for the rest of the night.
The next morning, we lost one member to Father's Day duties, and gained 3 more for a day visit, one of which had to be declared an honorary girl. Daddy (the Rooster) came out for a short visit, played some Bingo, then went back home to chores and the Basketball championship game on TV. And yes, they were all greeted with water grenades, and allowed to borrow their choice of super soakers. We armed ourselves with our stash of handguns stashed in our bathing suits. A river trip with the 4 kayaks, and two tubes ended an almost perfect afternoon, then we ate like pigs again.
Got to sleep in space mountain that night, and the Wee One had to leave that mjorning, she had to work that night. Left with just 2 of us now, we got in another river trip on the kayaks, got back and broke camp with an hour's daylight to spare, and came home tired, relaxed and planning our next weekend as soon as possible. This time, tho, we will include our S. O.'s in the fun. They have to buy their own super soakers, tho.
I am happy to report that the first annual girl's only weekend at Styx River met and even exceeded the anticipation!!
4 kayaks, tubes to rent, more GOOD food than we could all eat, and a tightknit group of coworkers who we now know, enjoy each others company at work AND play. We work together well, now we know we play together well. The behemoth is not such a behemoth that we can all be in the kitchen at the same time, so we set up an outside cooking station. I tend to do that anyway, because his airconditioner struggles these days to keep him cool, and cooking inside just taxes it more. Besides, everyone knows that food cooked outside tastes better anyway. Everyone had their jobs to do, and we did them well, without a lot of direction from anybody.
One of my coworkers, "Wee One" went with me on Fri to begin the setup. We have a humongous screen room we call space mountain because that is what it resembles when up. It is 30'x30' and octogon shaped. Very easy to assemble, 2 short women can put it up. Great for feeding a bunch of people, playing games, etc.
She and I got busy the next morning and filled up water balloons, and took turns watching for our other participants. Both were successfully greeted with a barrage of water grenades, and then allowed to pull from the ammunition stockpile, and to fill their super soakers. Wonderful in the 90 degree weather.
We played Farkle the first night, stayed up until past 0100, and slept in the behemoth because as soon as we had our air mattresses up in space mountain the wind blew a couple of gusts with rain sideways. The weather report promised more, and of course, we didn't get any more for the rest of the night.
The next morning, we lost one member to Father's Day duties, and gained 3 more for a day visit, one of which had to be declared an honorary girl. Daddy (the Rooster) came out for a short visit, played some Bingo, then went back home to chores and the Basketball championship game on TV. And yes, they were all greeted with water grenades, and allowed to borrow their choice of super soakers. We armed ourselves with our stash of handguns stashed in our bathing suits. A river trip with the 4 kayaks, and two tubes ended an almost perfect afternoon, then we ate like pigs again.
Got to sleep in space mountain that night, and the Wee One had to leave that mjorning, she had to work that night. Left with just 2 of us now, we got in another river trip on the kayaks, got back and broke camp with an hour's daylight to spare, and came home tired, relaxed and planning our next weekend as soon as possible. This time, tho, we will include our S. O.'s in the fun. They have to buy their own super soakers, tho.
posted by Mommanurse at 12:50 PM
2 Comments:
Your trips always sound so delightful, I hope one day for a guided tour. Sounds like tooo much fun.
Would be proud to have you as an honorary girl....you are perfect for the role.
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