Assalamualaikum kiddos,
Brace yourself people, this is going to be a long and drawn out post.
As I mentioned in a previous post, yesterday was our day out. We went to Bob’s Cottage. (For the record, Bob is a cool dude. He let a whole bunch of loud and obnoxious Bengali people crash at his cottage for a day. I admire that man’s bravery.) The day started at 9am when all 10 families were supposed to meet at our place so we could all head out togehter. Unfortunately, being brown and all, we ended up leaving at 10:30am rather than at 9:30 as we had originally planned. It would have been nice to be on time for once. Gosh, people! Our generation is gonna be different. Right folks?
Anywho, so we arrived at Bob’s Cottage (near Peterborough somewhere) at around 11:45am and right away we ran for the canoes, paddle boats and life jackets. Of course the guys got to it before us and jumped into the canoes before we had a chance. The guys went off, the girls chilled in the sun, the aunties and uncles got ’snacks’ ready.
At one point during this relaxing moment, my older brother and Faisal came in on a dinky little paddle boat saying how one of the canoes sank and that Fahi and Onjon Bhaiya were in the water. The girls laughed. Then my older bro and Faisal decided to do some rescue mission and go back on their paddle boat to save the guys. Silly boys. Little did they know how slow the paddle boat was. Soon enough, the guys came back and claimed that they were soaked from head to toe because of a ‘water fight’. We taunted them about how it was a water fight with the Lake and clearly, the Lake had won. Good times.. =)
Next up: the girls turn to go on the water. Fairy, Lamia and I got a paddle boat. We ‘drifted’ like in Tokyo Drift and made a wicked Gino beat song with beat boxing and everything. We also tried to tan our legs when we were far enough from any wandering eyes. later, the two paddle boats of girls joined forces and we floated together for a while. It was really nice and relaxing.
Lunch time came around. We ate. We drank. Good bbq. Good laughs. Good times. THen we re-applied sunscreen. Then I flew my Kite. It flew SO HIGH! The wind was perfect and steady. It was wonderful. After that, we just sat around on the grass and chilled and watched my kite and some of us tried our hand at kayaking. Not me though, Kayaks look too unstable for my taste.
After digesting our food, we headed for the volleyball net. There, we had our awesome game of volleyball. My team: Fairy, Fahi, Onjon Bhaiya, Nadia, Saima, and in the end — Lamia. We won the first game and lost the second. Unfortunately, we had to leave before finishing the 3rd game, but I’m confident we would have won. =) We’re just that good. Aw ye. I loved it!
Then some family friends of our came over from their cottage trip that weekend and headed out to the lake to do more fishing. It was time to go home. Our Tux crew people left and our fam and the other family friend of ours chilled a little and cleaned up the area a bit before heading out. We thanked Bob’s family for their generosity and welcoming nature. THey were truly really kind for having us there.
All in all, I had an awesome Sunday, Alhumdulillah. I got to do the volleyball thing I wanted, the paddle-boating, the tanning, the chilling, the eating, the relaxing, the unwinding, the laughing, the remeniscing, the afterglowing, the thanking, the planning, the teasing, the picture-taking and everything else on my to-do-list pretty much. Grateful to God for giving me that oppurtunity.
pEACe,
Fuzzy
