urban kayaking

we made it out to kayak yesterday on possibly one of two days that its ever both cloudy and windy down here, but it was beautiful out! It started out that this pretty stinky young guy showed us to our boats and we got in and were on our way, which i was thankful for because man he was stinky. So we start paddling and about 3-5 minutes of paddling we reach our first bridge to go under. On our paddle over we talked about how stinky this dude was. Then i was like but the smell is NOT going away is it? Gabe said that it wasn't so bad and then i realized that my life jacket STUNK so bad like him, or b.o. that i was immediately disgusted. I started unbuckling my life jacket and twisting the arm parts to get it as far as possible off my body as legal (he told us they had to be on our shoulders). So i definitely left it on my shoulders but i was sporting it much more like an 80s fashion statement when we wore our shirts half hanging off of our shoulders.

Trying to get over this and have a good time (especially because this was part of gabe's bday presents from me) and keep paddling towards our next bridge to go under. Gabe looks at me like i'm crazy with the life jacket and insists upon switching with me. So i allow it because he really wanted me to have a different one. This was MUCH better for me. (Later I thought about most likely all the people that don't wear shirts in the summer and sweat so bad while wearing those life jackets and then I was really grossed out).

Anyways beyond all of that we had so much fun!! We were playing in the waves and watched many many aeroplanes come in over our heads, surrounded by buttes, highways, condos, and office buildings - it was the most urban kayak experience that you can get i think which I enjoyed. Our shoulders were quite soar by the end of our time because the wind was relentless on our way back to the dock and gabe woke up with a soar back (he is 26) but it was all worth it. This is definitely something we want to do with more guests that visit us.