Thursday morning exercise

After the good feelings and enlarging of muscles that came from canoeing yesterday, Malini and David decided to go kayaking this morning. From the moment they left shore, there were met by constant problems controlling their kayak. Within the first minute of launching, they decided to go through a narrow channel to make their way towards the Lake of the Isles. After successfully avoiding a sandbar on the right side of the tunnel, they almost immediately ran into the cement wall on the left and in an attempt to straighten the kayak, David ended up throwing a gob of seaweed into Malini's hair from his paddle. Their shrieks of laughter echoed in the tunnel, and the runners going along side their kayaking path watched, presumably in horror. They recovered from this initial setback and began to get into a routine, paddling in sync. Upon reaching the second lake, the pair were met by the gusty winds (maybe from El Nino?) and immediately ran into a new set of problems. The small, two-person kayak was far lighter and less robust than yesterday’s three-person canoe, allowing the wind and waves to batter the small sea craft to and fro across the lake. Try as they might, for the next 45 minutes, they were unable to paddle in a straight path and repeatedly found themselves careening off the the right or the left. The gusts of wind caused their paddles to splash more water up and into the kayak, leaving them rather wet by the journey's end. Finally, towards the end of the adventure, as David repeatedly asked Malini to stop paddling and just sit pretty and allow him to take care of matters, the kayak came under control. However, prior to this, as the pair found themselves going in circles a few hundred meters out from the rental place, it was certain that the young canoe-rental boys had a good laugh watching one of their rentals meander in circles before their eyes.