{"id":223,"date":"2008-07-14T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/07\/14\/osoyoos-the-rr\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T01:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T01:03:00","slug":"osoyoos-the-rr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/07\/14\/osoyoos-the-rr\/","title":{"rendered":"Osoyoos: The R&R"},"content":{"rendered":"

So… we arrived<\/a>, found our site<\/a>, and survived the storm<\/a>. What did we do next?<\/p>\n

Very little! Hurrah!<\/p>\n

It was a beautifully relaxing trip, which I sorely needed. It’s difficult for us to get much time off together, so it felt like a loooong time since the last time we’d just relaxed. There can’t be many couples who have to work around grant deadlines and <\/span>movie shooting schedules, and in fact our next short holiday starts on Thursday as we had to cram all our holiday days into a short space of time.<\/p>\n

The highlight for me was the day we rented a speedboat and went tubing. I’d never done this before and was expecting a nice fat inner tube I could wedge myself into, but it was actually just a flat inflatable with short canvas loops for me to hold onto while I lay on my front on top. After two of my friends alternated tubing and driving for the first two turns, and did their best to throw each other off, I insisted that they take it easy on me. They agreed – to some extent.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They’re coming to take me away, ha ha… with some serious horsepower<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately my arm strength is truly laughable, so I was already pretty tired by the time I’d given up trying to climb onto the damn thing by myself and accepted my friends’ help. I held on for longer than I expected, but the slamming of the tube into the waves and boat wake were pretty brutal and I had to scream “SSSSSSSTTTTTTOOOOOOOPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!” to avoid cartwheeling through the air like the two guys before me. It was truly awesome, but I got tired before too long and my arms and shoulders hurt pretty badly the next day! I will need to do some serious weight training before next year’s trip.<\/p>\n

Apart from that brief adrenaline interlude, the rest of the trip consisted of hanging out on our inflatable living room, including one memorable starlit drinking session; playing frisbee in the lake (which conveniently enough had a nice flat sandy bottom in waist-deep water); swimming; playing with assorted dogs; reading; playing games (Risk, Scrabble, Yahtzee, cribbage, asshole (a card game, honest), Uno, but amazingly, no poker); eating; drinking; and being merry.<\/p>\n

Our next camping trip will be a five day kayaking adventure in Desolation Sound<\/a>, with just the two of us. The vibe will be completely different, but I think it’s going to be just as fantastic. The following weekend involves another car camping trip with a different group of friends. After the last couple of summers of buying a house and getting married and not doing anything else, it is sooooo nice to have time to actually enjoy our summer.<\/p>\n

Wish you were here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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