Yes, I am back after just publishing my last one in a minute. So I told you that I would be sharing some of my adventures I have been one and this one is about the last time we went Canoeing as a family. Now, this is all true and yes, I haven't been canoe after this awful trip.
We went canoe somewhere in Ohio on the day after it rained. It was truly my dad's idea and I really didn't want to go. I was only ten years and I didn't feel like getting a canoe on a hot summer day. I also didn't feel like spending a whole day with the family that day. But anyways, we all piled in the car and drove what seemed forever to a canoe place. My dad said that we should go in one canoe, but my mom argued not to. She said the famous lines and they were;
"How hard can it be to steer the back of the canoe?"
So, my poor big brother, Austin, had to be in the canoe with my mom, because I won a thumb war. I climbed in with my dad and my dad steered the back of our canoe. We went in front of my mom and Austin. In the silence of my the nice hot nature day, I hear a panic cry. I turned my head around and I saw my mom heading her canoe in a bridge that was built over the creek! My dad just shook his head and my mom said that she knows what she is doing.
She was wrong, because after nearly killing my brother by driving the canoe in the bridge, she starts going in circles, runs into a pack of ducks, and then the worst happened. We came near some fast water, so my dad gets through it easily, but at the end of the fast water was a low bearing branch. We ducked and then we waited for my mom and brother. My mom goes through the fast water actually nicely and my brother ducked when the branch came. Mom instead grabbed the damn branch and held on for some odd reason! She didn't let go of it and kept holding it onto and we are shouting for her to let go, but more bad luck happens. The canoe slips from underneath them and starts going down the river! My mom and Austin are stuck in the river and my mom lost her shoe by getting unstuck. So we all had to pile in one canoe after that and let me tell you, I was having a panic attack.
I have never been in this situation before and it was scary! I was only ten years old at the time and I was scarred for life. My mom found her shoe after ten minutes of canoeing. She started shaking the canoe and my brother and I shouted for her to stop. Then my hope of a rescue came next to us! It was another family and I smiled happily. I cried for help and my family told me to be quiet. I didn't and the wife looked at us. This how the other family conservation went.
"Should we help them?" The wife asked her dear husband.
"No, just keep paddling." He said.
They left us and I felt my hope fall out of me. But we did find the other canoe eventually and I was still panicking. My dad had to go up a hill full of poison ivy, which he is very allergic to. He had to drag it down from the hill and back into the river. My dad was very angry at this and so, My dad got on one canoe. He was in the back and my mom was in the front of the other one. Austin and I held onto the two canoes so that we were together. After an hour or so, we arrived at our pick up spot. Relief washed over my face, but we had missed our pick up. We had no cellphones and I panicked so more, but I didn't panic for a long time. Another family arrived at the spot and they had cellphones! They had cellphones! They called and we go picked up! That was the last time we canoed and it was no joke. I have survived and I should canoe again, but I don't think I would. LOL.
Until next time,
Alexandra M. Griesinger
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