Promo Video and Our Silly Attempt at a Date

Yesterday morning we had professional videographers come and do a promo video of our stand up paddle school. I had called plenty of friends to come be paddlers for it prior and got my nerves a bit rustled when I had 5 people call and cancel the night before, and those also happened to be those who were going to watch peoples' kids! But everything worked out just great. Everyone had a great time, the water was clear, the river gorgeous, we had enough equipment and enough paddlers and enough food, and the wind remained calm until we were coming in on the last shoot. We felt really blessed, and we are so grateful for everyone's help. Everyone said they had a great time. It's fun to be in a business that makes people happy.

Nate and I had a date that night. We were lucky to have had a date last week, but besides that we had not been on a date for too long of a time. We are the kind of people that could use a date once a week. So both of us were so excited that we could finally have a date. But it ended up that we were so tired. All the lifting of boards, lack of sleep the night before, doing this and that, traveling up the river twice and paddling into a strong headwind on the way back, well, winded us.

We dropped the girls off at our friend's house, peeled ourselves off her livingroom couch, and joked about coming back as early as 8:30. We suggested many things to do and they all sounded either too strenuous or too sleepy to us, and we ended up going to a favorite pizza joint. After staring at it for a long time we finally got out of the car.

As we ate our pizza, I watched parents walk around with their children in tow and commented how sorry I felt for parents whose kids stay up late. A little while later I asked Nate what time it was. It was only 7:20!!! We were already ready for bed!! But we couldn't go back before our kids were asleep, so we walked around town for a bit, got laughed at by the registrar at the grocery store for returning 3 times (a tired mind is a slow mind, folks!) and came back to our friend's house at 8:00 where Nate quickly fell asleep on her couch. Even still, we had a great time and laughed about anything and everything.