Wimps

A few days ago, I came to a realization: me and Michael are total wimps. We LOVE scary rides at amusement parks and trying new things, but we have one major wimpy thing in common: We are not 'nature people.' Sure, I enjoyed going to Girls' Camp when I was in Young Womens, but we mostly always went places with cabins and showers. Michael went camping twice while growing up- and didn't love it. As he likes to tell people, he was raised by a woman. :-) In college, I had a fear of marrying someone who loved camping and would want to go all the time. I would so much rather camp in a hotel in the Caribbean. Well, I definitely married the perfect guy for me. Michael is just as big of a nature wimp as I am.

Earlier this week, I decided that we should finally go check out the lake that we live pretty close to. It's HOT here, and I thought it would be nice to pack a lunch, have a picnic on the sand, and then wade in the lake. Sounds nice, right? Once we got there, we saw a picnic table under the trees. Within one minute, we had seen about four HUGE spiders hanging out under the table and the flies were attacking our food like crazy. Gross! I also heard some suspicious animal noises that scared me to death. So we packed up our food and moved closer to the water. Sadly, there was no sand- only rocks. We set down our towels on a big rock and figured we could dangle our feet in the water while we ate. This time, we made it a whole two minutes before the spiders (and this time, mosquitoes) made an appearance and we chickened out yet again. We were sweaty and creeped out and decided to just leave. We didn't even go in the water- no one else was in the water and apparently there are poisonous water snakes here. Ugh! So yes, we are lame.... and incredibly wimpy. I did take one picture to prove that we at least tried to appreciate the nature around us.


We enjoyed the rest of our lunch in the comfort of our air conditioned apartment. Seriously, someone needs to take our poor little boy camping because I would love for him to actually appreciate things like that, unlike his parents. :-)