This morning we awoke to a beautiful sky, though a brisk
temperature right around the freezing point. After a quick breakfast, which was
slightly prolonged and agonizing due to the toasters which pretty much require
the piece of bread to constantly be held down if you want anything other than
‘slightly warm bred’. We were
antagonised by the presence of large jars of peanut butter placed on each table
which we were not allowed to touch due to a small peanut allergy in our group.
Jill especially seemed to find this very irksome due to a little bit of a
fetish (dare I call it that) for PB. Oh well, we will all survive.
We arrived at the lake all very excited to get the boats
rigged up and get on the water. Unfortunately this wasn’t so doable because of
the not so little white caps on the water due to the wind. This meant we got to
go do a circuit training/erg/core/whateverMattfeltlikeatthetime circuit. It was
a pretty good training session, but we still weren’t on the water. That means
that thus far this trip we have driven through snow in the dark, slept, and
done land training because the water was un-rowable. Remind me again why we
left Ontario, it seems to me that all of these things could be accomplished
staying at home.
Oh, right, now I remember why we’re here – the all you can
eat dining hall at Brenau University. Good food and for an awesome price. This
is a place which still has Cherry Coke, which I think says pretty much all that
needs saying. However, I think I can talk about this a bit more. Matt was
highly disappointed by the ice cream machine being out by the time he got there
(I seem to remember something from last year to the effect of ‘I think later
I’m going to hook my mouth up to that ice cream machine’).
Later this afternoon we headed back down to the lake to go
for a second row, well really a first row, but I like calling it a second row
more than an afternoon row after a random erg, circuit, random workout thing. Anyway,
the wind had come down a bit, though it was still rather rough at the dock, which
made pushing off rather difficult. There’s also a contribution from the odd
orientation of the dock relative to the shore/wind/ramp/universe. Suffice to say, we got out for a nice row
which I think everyone enjoyed, or lied about enjoying, or put themself in the
lead for this year’s dolphin award. After we got off the water there was a bit
of a dash to get to dinner because we were hungry and tired and the food place
is awesome.
I forgot to mention a highlight from yesterday’s travel.
When we stopped to get gas in the town of Lima, Ohio, Jill found white Resse’s
cups. As one might expect, they are regular Resse’s cups, but with white
chocolate instead of milk. They were a cool novelty, but I can’t really say
they were better than the regular cups.
Dolphin Award Tally:
Maria: 1
Everyone Else: 0
