My Sunday morning was switched up a bit by having to do our "Hook 'Em and Cook 'Em" program instead of programs at the PNVC, but who is going to complain about getting to fish for 2 hours, right? Plus I got an awesome above-knee tan with my new shorts. It's the little things, guys. Anywhoozles, straight after I jetted up to Center Lake to meet Kaitlin for canoeing.
Visitors that had been at fishing had arrived early and were anxiously awaiting the canoes when I saw it breaking the horizon. The glorious red truck. However, my joy was quickly dashed to the ground when I heard terrifying scraping noises coming from the canoe trailer. In one glance I could tell something was terribly wrong. The front wheel of the trailer was on the ground alright...but it certainly wasn't turning. The front bar had bent to, oh, I don't know, maybe a 30 degree angle when it's SUPPOSED to be straight. Awesome.
While the visitors were distracted by Kaitlin and signing their lives away with our waivers, I made an emergency call to one of our supervisors because there was NO WAY we were getting that trailer back to Sun City. Eventually we got Steve from the shop out there to check it out. He took one look at the trailer. There was no sugar-coating it...we were screwed. Steve managed to temporarily mend it enough to haul it off to the shop to possibly fix it when Kaitlin and I stumbled upon the realization that we were NOT getting that trailer back anytime soon, and we had no means of hauling all the canoes. Luckily Steve had brilliantly already formed a plan while we were running around trying to accommodate our 38 canoers!
At 3 PM the visitors departed and three heroes came to our rescue! Shop Steve, Campground Supervisor Mark, and Blue Bell Host Paul, all drove up in their state trucks to help us transport the canoes back to Sun City. (Oh, P.S., Steve brought us all cold sodas. He's the bomb.) After miraculously fitting the canoes in the truck beds and strapping them down we took off to Sun City. I can imagine the visitors were griping at our inefficient convoy, but thank goodness this isn't a common problem we have.
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| "COME ON AND JOIN OUR CONVOY...!" |
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| At least we were trying to have fun with this... Kaitlin has had TERRIBLE luck with driving the canoe trailer. |
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| And although Paul was trying to get out of the way, it simply looks like he's doing a Russian dance. |
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| Tried to multitask. Was untying knots when the canoe started to fall... "I'LL JUST HOLD IT WITH MY BUTT!" Classic Beth. |
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| Six little canoes, all in a row. With nothing to wear and nowhere to go. |
After unloading all the canoes our heroes departed and Kaitlin and I went on our merry way, as it was thankfully the end of our work days. I don't know if I could have been trusted to do something functional after that. In fact, we went and got ice cream. Complete win.
So I hope your day was just as eventful, but maybe a little less hectic than ours. Have a great day and a happy morrow!
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