Tipping the canoe

So as a few know the family and I took a week vacation to Ely, MN. it was very cool. No phone, tv or internet. Nothing but family time, it was what we all needed. But that is not what I am here to talk about. While there Jo, my beloved wife, decided she would like to rent a canoe. I thought this was a great idea. In our younger years we both did quite a bit of canoeing and both have very fond memories of it. But again this is not what I am here to talk about.

As many people know I quit smoking this year. I have always been a "large" man, but because of this lack of cigarette in my mouth I found something else to occupy my time, and that would be food. Yes the glorious thing we need to survive. We just don't need the copious amounts I was shoveling into my mouth. So needless to say I have put on "some" weight, and I will just leave it at that. When people ask if I want to get into shape I always reply, 'I am in shape, round is a shape".

With that being said we rented the canoe and Jo took out our 2 younger daughters. When she got back I said I wanted to go out. So I did and I went to meet the fam at the swimming beach. I made it there without incident. When it was time to go back, I realized I had been sitting in the bow, or front, of the canoe. So I got back in the canoe, this time in the proper place, the backor aft and watched as the bow started to raise out of the water. I soon realized I was under the water. Yep I tipped the canoe. being me I jumped up and laughed at myself, a good thing to learn, and realized my cell was in my pocket. I threw that at Jo and she opened it and took out the battery so we can go back and do the rice trick. Well I decide to get back in and sit the way I had been on the row over and again found myself in the drink.

So to summarize I quit smoking, got fat and fell into the water and was able to laugh at myself. Moral of the story, who cares, it is just funny to think of me falling into the water.