Boat race complete

Have you ever had this really weird feeling...
Like when you were totally dreading something, and then you had a blast?  I mean, actually enjoyed it? Because that's just was happened to me.  Miss Tina signed me the four other friends up for the

Cardboard Boat Regatta

This was because she, other the three families, knew the least about it.  Before I go on, though, I'm surprised by how many people we have to explain this to.  We made a boat out of cardboard, water proofed it, the raced against other teams.  No, this was not an itty bitty boat, this was big enough to hold all five of us kids.  Ok, now that we got that covered....

We did excellent.  We were really worried that our boat would spring a leak or something, because, to be frank, we are not the best builders.  But no, we won 4th place...and the team we went against was the navy team.  >snicker snicker<  One of whom >giggle giggle< dropped his oar!  >lol!<  On video!  Unfortunately,  we won our heat, but only three teams could make it to the second heat.  So our, boat the Titanic, sadly, did not win anything (not even the prize for Most Titanic.  That went to the people who had such a bad design they were up to their knees in water)

BUT!

Our day was not over yet.  We took the Titanic back out, intending to get to the middle of the lake and sink it.  But, we never got the chance.  Somebody (no names, but I think I know who) messed with his/her duck tape sealant and his/her section sprung a leak.  Of course, it was only a trickle, but the he/she STOOD UP and screamed "Iceberg!  Abandon ship!" and jumped out  (we had life vests on.)  Of course, then it started poring in water so everybody started screaming Titanic-y stuff and jumping off (actually, two of the team got into a sword/paddle fight and one got shoved off)  Next thing I know, one last person is standing in the boat, up to there waist in water.  There are people video taping us from the shore too!  So we drag it back and find out the "water proof paint" peals when it gets wet and that the whole underside of out boat was peeled back.

We then spent two hours paddle boarding (it's really fun, we played water wars, you should try it some time), eating cookies, and just having a blast.

Funny how things turn out that way.