A shorter, lighter post today. We had our monthly training, which was for off-road rescue. We took an 4-wheeler and two Polaris Rangers down to a local lake 'saved' a kid from the bible camp there as practice. All in all the actual rescue part was just more of the same, but getting in and out was a blast. Riding down a barely existent path, traveling through boggy marshland and dense forest is pretty cool. Of course, I was dressed completely inappropriately.
Button-down shirt, v-neck sweater, sneakers instead of boots... at least I was wearing jeans instead of dress slacks. XD I actually managed to stay completely pristine until we were just about out and done. I saw the puddle (mini-lake? a ford in the river? Truly it was too large and too deep to be considered a puddle.) coming and all I could think was 'nonononononoh snap.' And as the wave of muddy brown water came crashing towards me; "bother".
On a completely unrelated note, the girls have decided that it's fun to make me do sit-ups. Two of them run up when I'm sitting and leap on me, trying their best to pull me to the ground. Then I have about two seconds to do a sit-up before they start indiscriminately smacking me. Or crawling over me. They do that too. Getting kneed in the kidney by a two year old is still painful... but I'm so ticklish that I laugh uncontrollably. After about 75 sit-ups or so I physically couldn't do any more and my cousin had to rescue me as I just curled up into the fetal position, laughing.
Apparently this is becoming a daily occurrence, which is probably good for me. Sometimes I need the motivation.
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