There are a few more reasons that I left out yesterday as to why I settled on kayaking as a thing I should be doing.
Reason no. 5 is that I am friends on Facebook with a woman who was my high school speech and debate coach and English teacher. She has two kayaks and has made an open invitation to her friends to meet her for a paddle anytime. I think that would be so cool, not only to meet someone for a paddle in a kayak, but also to reconnect with a person who has had a seriously major impact on the direction of my life and was also the first person to tell me that I was a pretty good writer.
Reason no. 6 is that Olympia Parks and Recreation has a one-day, five-hour kayak class offered in April that I thought would be cool to take.
Also, we live really close to the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, which is fantastically beautiful and would be one hell of a place to paddle. I guess that's reason no. 7.
Oh, also, the hubs' family has, like, 17 kayaks between them and I am pretty sure they can't use all of them at once, so I have a hook up on a free to borrow kayak. Also, it's probably not really 17, it's more like 11 or something, but there are only four paddle-capable adults, so that's still a dysfunctional human-to-kayak ratio.
Thank you so much to those of you who read yesterday's post and left me an encouraging comment, either here, on Facebook or via Twitter. I greatly appreciate your words and will freely admit that I have read each comment many times over.
Kayak count: I used "kayak" seven times, and the word "paddle"four times. Seriously folks, I am in it to win it.
