Six boats entered the CooperRiis boat race, so I would call that a success, especially since none of them sank. Now, myself, being an experienced home-made boat racer, it's no surprise that our boat came in second--even if second to a sailboat. Can you believe a sailboat got first. But you know, simple wins the race. Our raft was just a piece of plywood on top of a tractor tire intertube, one person riding atop, and then we had three people swimming and pushing it. One of the boats tried the bike/paddlewheel thing, but it was too slow to gain any glory. A couple of nice pirate costumes. Good video footage. Now I'm just trying to decide if I should buy a plane ticket home to make it to the Perryville race in July. Two boat races in two months, would it be too much? ARGHH!
(P.S. Our boat was called hope floats--a little cheesy, but appropriate for a healing farm...)
(P.S.S. I went to like the world's hugest barbecue festival today! The cultural stuff that goes on in these parts, I'm tellin ya what.)
4 comments:
You should definately fly home in July....you know what they say....whatever floats your boat.
You should especially come back for the boat race if it happens to also be a last party that a certain two very close friends will be attending in Arkansas for some time... and especially if you still hold the title of game master. wink.
my vote is also for ellen coming to the boat race. i mean, how could she host one of her own, and then not be there for the original...besides, we need a "best port whore...oops, pirate".
fine, fine...i guess i should start looking for plane tickets and pirate outfits.
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