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April 13, 2007
Personal Entertainment
This week, I have been out of town in Mexico and away from the entertainment news. So instead of gossiping about celebrities and television, I thought i'd share an entertaining story that happened to me this week. I know i'm not anyone famous, but I think my story will still entertain you.
So I'm staying with my family at a resort in Riviera Maya and they had catamaran boats that you could take out for free if you were an experienced sailor. So naturally, my dad not wanting to pay for a lesson told the resort that he knew how to sail or should I say "understood the mechanics of sailing."
This is the resort that believed we could sail.
Despite our difficulty getting past the crashing waves, we finally made it out into the open ocean. We decide that a pier about a mile down looks like a good destination. As the pier gets closer and closer I suggest starting to turn around since turning was taking my dad quite a distance to do. He refused and wanted to get a better view, so we keep going and discover gigantic pots underneath us that are about a foot underneath the water's surface. These pots prevent our rutter from turning. I start to panic, and sure enough, we hit the pier. Everyone on the beach comes to laugh and watch my dad jump off the boat and attempt to manually turn it. Eventually he succeeds and we are headed back, but we are not in the clear yet! I slowly notice that the sail is starting to cover my body and within seconds I am buried! Somehow the knot came undone when we hit the pier and caused the sail to come loose. I completely freak out as no help seems to be on its way. Finally the Mexican waverunnerers see us and come to our rescue. We soon discover the only way to fix the sail is to knock the boat over into the water and manually re-string the sail. It was a long process that was not injury free, but in the end I got a free waverunner ride back to shore. At first I refused never to sail with my dad again, but then I realized how boring it would have been without all of the calamities, and I signed right back up to go sailing the next day! (Who would've thought my dad would have been allowed to go back out?)
Posted by mchughme at April 13, 2007 11:02 PM