Injuries

I was at Lake Leake again this weekend. (It was show weekend, so we had 4 days off). Considering that last time I went to Lake leake I managed to fall out of the boat...anyone want to gues how I utterly embarrased myself this time?

No? No one? plz guess! (post your guess as a comment before reading on)

The answer is threefold (nice big word, don't you think?)

1. I burnt my arms and legs in the sun
2. I burnt my feet in the fire
3. I face planted off my bike

Ok, so getting sun burnt is kinda understandable. Me and james were kiacking around the lake in the nice, warm sun on Friday. It was really nice and calm and peacful and we both paddle about the same speed, so it was really really nice.There's not really any other way to describe it. Nice.

But the thing about kyaching is that i was waering boardies and my rashy. My rashy comes half way down the top of my arms. So now I have a burn/tan line half way down the tops of my arms! So not cool!

Any way, sunburn hurts, but fire-burn hurts more.

OK, scroll down a bit. See that? Its our bonfire! We built it last time and we lit it on Thursday night. And no, i wasn't quiet dum enough to get me feet burnt in that.

Before I tell you how I did get my feet burnt, here are a few pics from the bonfire. It was tons of fun and even better cause we all got to stay late. Ray weant a bit photo carzy, but here are 4 pics I think capture the night.

The us:

The Bonfire:

The sparklers:

Ok, so back to the hot topic - my feet.

Have you ever had a bonfire? Do you know how the bonfire ash is all white and looks really harmless? Do you know how hot that ash really is?

I do.

James and I are pyro-maniacs. On friday mornign we started the fire up again with bits of bark and sticks and drift-wood. we kept that fire going all day on friday and for a bit on Saturday morning. This required freequently hunting out more sticks, bark and driftwood for our hungry fire. I think we basicly cleared our bit of shore-line from everything burnable.

We were trying to put a particularly big bit of wood on the fire when I stepped into the harmless-looking white ash. In thongs.

It really hurt and I wasn't very smart. I sorta stamped up and down a bit before I ran to the lake. I stood in the lake until my feet went numb and then got out - just to return as soon as the feeling came back into my feet.

I wore proper shoes around that fire after that.

Now, for number 3. Oh yeah, the face-plant. The easiest way for me to explane it would be for you to watch this video. Sorry for the bad quality - it was filmed on James' fone.

If you don't laugh, then there must be something wrong with you.

LolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLolLOL!!!

I havn't shown it to anyone yet who hasn't laughed. And James hasn't stopped laughing since I did it. Another thing he can add to his list if things he can never let me forget.