Birthday Parties and Little Blue Boats

Cherish here!

So everyone, my birthday party was saturday! Even better, it was only awkward at first! I've been to a whole lot of birthday parties and usually when you get a bunch of people from different circles you get a lot of awkward conversation and a scarce host/hostess. But not mine! It was great! I got a few cool things even, but that wasn't the important part. The important part was that everyone who came had a brilliant time.
We played Just Dance 2 and we ate food and we acted very much like little kids. Little kids with seventeen years of experience acting like little kids. We played games like Duck, Duck, Goose and Red Rover which has always been a favorite party game of mine. I've never had so much fun at a party I think. And a few friends stayed the night and we watched Osmosis Jones until we fell asleep. Doubtless a wonderful night.

Today was really good too though! I went out on a little blue aluminum boat with my dad for about five hours. It was a blustery day and rain sprinkled off and on, I definitely wore the wrong sweats for the occasion, it was much too cold for thin knee-length cotton. Despite being cold and misty and muddy (we left at low tide) it was really peaceful and nice.
And the birds! Oh my goodness! Everywhere you looked there were herons and bald eagles and osprey. They had built nests all around the slough and were watching for fish and diving all around us. At one point we got so distracted bird watching that we ended up with less than a foot of water beneath us and dragging our propeller! It was pretty unlikely and hilarious. Around five we finally reached the shipwrecked barrier that had been our goal. After I had to get out and tow the boat through biting shallow water barefoot and using the oars to push off the mud to keep going. It was great.

The shipwrecks are really cool. They're used as a water barrier now and if you go out to them you can tie your boat off and climb on them, though it isn't really recommended. They're covered in seaweed and barnacles and have all these holes in them, I was a little worried I was going to fall through, but I survived. And got some really cool photos but even during the short time we were there the water level was rising noticeably. I was definitely wearing the wrong shoes, my old granny shoes have been with me through a lot (I even wore them to prom, but that's a different story) but they're certainly not up to climbing over sharp, slippery boat carcasses. So we'll be heading back pretty soon. There were at least a dozen of them. So much to explore!
I'll leave you with a quote from a favorite movie of mine. "Adventure is out there!" And readers, it's so true. You only have to look a little ways to find an adventure of some sort or another. So grab your sonic screwdriver, hop into your metaphorical TARDIS, and go find it. It'll be worth it.

Cherish out!