the first day of helping out with camp started with a bang...or should i say..getting dragged along the pavement by a steel cable...let me explain
the ramp that leads down to the river to drop the kids off for tubing has a steel cable running across the top of it...which is pad locked to two posts...george gave me the key to unlock it...but it wasn't working...after trying it again and again...and with the kids on their way down in the bus...i said "why don't we unscrew the eye bolt"...so george grabbed a wrench and i grabbed the loop on the cable and we both started to turn...
and we turned and we turned
all the while the cable was turning with us...getting more and more tension on it...you know those toy airplanes with the rubber bands attached the propeller...yeah...think of that...the eye bolt was wiggling...and towards the end with every turn...we kept saying "it almost there"....finally...as it popped off...the cable untwisted...catching my hand in the loop and flinging me across to top of the ramp...
as george recalls it..."the wrench came out of my hand...i picked it up and you were gone"
it hurt at the time...but in hindsight it was a fun ride...a couple gouges here and there but nothing too bad
being on the river all of yesterday was tough...not the beautiful water...not the dense trees...not the grassy banks...but the kids...the elementary kids...you know the ones...the ones that can't balance in their tubes...the ones that think that a alligator is going to eat them...the ones that cry cause they feel they can't do it...yeah them...most of them were good...but its always those few that make the ride more difficult...testing your patience
it felt good to have a group here...i forgot what it felt like...how a group of kids can energize you...seeing them react to one another...seeing their insecurities...their personalities...it was a quick day and a half...but as always...it felt like a week
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