Canoeing.

On Friday, my young women's group and I went out into literally the middle of nowhere to camp for the weekend. We stayed Friday night and then Saturday we canoed 13.2 miles from 9am until 5pm. At first I thought, "Oh, this will be easy. Canoeing is a joke." Boy, was I wrong. It ended up being an endless, hard, cold, and horrible trip. Canoeing is a lot harder than you think. About half way through the trip, almost everyone was getting super slap happy and loopy since we had only seen trees and the river all day long. The things people were saying were so stinking hilarious!

-"Why are my knees purple??"
-"My toes look weird!"
-"I am about to pee my pants..."
-"GUYS! I just peed in the woods!!"
-" I just want Garrett to bring us some chicken...and some raman."
-"HELP US!"
-"This is like being stuck in limbo...this trip never ends."
-" I spy something green....Oh, a tree because that's all we've seen for the past 5 hours."
-"If boys were here, we wouldn't be cold."
-"Do people actually do this for fun?"
-"MY ARMS HURT!"
-"I just want chicken."
-"OH! A MOTORBOAT!! QUICK.... STEAL IT"
-"Can you pass the jerky?"
-"This water is disgusting"
-"I'm cold!"
-"Now I know how people in the Titanic felt."
-" How far are we?" "We've only gone 5 miles.." "WHAT???"
- "If the young men were here, I'd make them paddle and then sit back and tell them how great they are."
-"Debra wouldn't paddle, she paddled for 5 seconds and then said ok- your turn."
-"Debra has got so much food stashed in her hoodie that she seems like a drug seller."
-"LOLLIPOP LOLLIPOP OH LOLLI LOLLI LOLLI" (for 5 hours)
-"So what's the point? Why are we canoeing?"
-"Your canoe is backwards..."
-"Your brother is hot."
-" I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO ALEX LIKES!!"
-"I hate camping."
-"Where's all the fish?"
-"AHHHHH AN ALIGATOR!!!!!" "Mikayla, that's a log." "Oh, right."

So, in other words, this was a horrible, yet bonding experience for our stake young women and I definitely wouldn't do it again. Haha.

XOXO
Mikayla