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Dec. 6th, 2001 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semperfionaSo I skipped playing Amber tonight--the GM told me yesterday he was probably going to be unable to run a game anyway--in favor of going to McGurk's Irish Pub for Jody's 35th birthday party. I ate way too much and now I feel sick. Still, it was fun hanging out with a group of geeks-like-me and talking about things like gaming and rockclimbing and, oh, did I mention they're not just geeks they're outdoorsy geeks?
Jody is the one who took me for my first ever kayaking trip this past July on the St Francis River. The "Saint" is normally only runnable between December and April or so, but this summer we had a week's worth of heavy rain in mid-July, so there was just five days or so where the water was up.
We had gone just once to Creve Coeur Lake so he could teach me some basics, and then the river suddenly came up. Of course I said I'd go, and it was absolutely wonderful fun. I was actually pretty good at it, too. Experience at canoeing and whitewater rafting carried over so that I usually knew what I was trying to do (which side of a rock to steer for, that sort of thing), though the difference in paddling meant I didn't always get there.
Jody is the one who took me for my first ever kayaking trip this past July on the St Francis River. The "Saint" is normally only runnable between December and April or so, but this summer we had a week's worth of heavy rain in mid-July, so there was just five days or so where the water was up.
We had gone just once to Creve Coeur Lake so he could teach me some basics, and then the river suddenly came up. Of course I said I'd go, and it was absolutely wonderful fun. I was actually pretty good at it, too. Experience at canoeing and whitewater rafting carried over so that I usually knew what I was trying to do (which side of a rock to steer for, that sort of thing), though the difference in paddling meant I didn't always get there.
