Let me know about your new experience today!

I decided to climb aboard this train when I saw your post on Facebook. What fun!

Yesterday, my Day One, I got out of bed at around midnight because I couldn’t sleep. (This technically makes this a Saturday adventure, but I was still in Friday mode so I’m bending rules, as usual.) I sat in my front room in the dark and watched the daisies and lilies in my garden sway back and forth in the breeze. And then inspiration hit. I wrapped myself up in some warm clothes, walked out into my back yard and climbed into my hammock. To the right, I could see the moon rising; to the left, the Big Dipper was spectacular and perfectly placed in the only open sky visible through the trees. I stayed there until nearly 1 a.m. Ordinarily, thoughts of scary night critters or creepy ne’er-do-wells would have kept me in the house. This night in all its glory was mine, and I’m so glad I stepped into it.

Today, Day Two, I accepted an invitation to spend the day at a friend’s cottage in Northeast Wisconsin. When I was offered a ride behind the boat in a two-person rubber raft, I agreed to do it even though I have some trepidation about close contact with large bodies of deep water. But I was assured that we would go slow and besides, the raft has a back rest and padded seats. I discovered very quickly that people can have radically different interpretations of the word “slow.” The waves were choppy, and the raft wasn’t rigged correctly, and we ended up swamping more than once. There were quite a few YouTube moments and more than a few laughs. When I realized that conditions weren’t going to get better, I signaled the boat driver to bring me in. Safely planted on a bow seat, I watched with delight as my friends grinned ear-to-ear and laughed out loud as the now-corrected raft flew across the water and the wake and gave them the kind of ride that water lovers live for.

But I’m glad I did it. My experience provided lots of fodder for one-liners. And, it was a fun, fun, super fun day!