Friday, as Seafest begins. Sidewalk sales along Main Street, people milling around everywhere. Fireworks cancelled due to fog, but I had a nice day all the same! I planned to try out Dragon boating at a training session at 6 pm at Milo. I knew there was races on Sunday, so I wanted to see what it was all about.
Unfortunately only three of us showed up in addition to the coach, Mark. Dragon boats are heavy, so unfortunately we couldn't try it out as mostly fairly new beginners to the idea. Instead of wasting a perfectly nice evening, we grabbed a couple kayaks and a canoe and went for a paddle around the lake to check out the Dragon Boat race course. That's the night I met Chad, because other than Mark and Judi, he was the only other one to show up for the training. He works with my sister-in-law, Jessica, at Sobeys but also seems to be at the Milo Boat house an awful lot. After a short paddle around the course, including a "race against time" to see how many strokes it would take to go from start to finish on the Dragon boat 300 m course (I took 173 against a little wind); Judi and Chad tried the racing kayaks out, very successfully I might add.
Since that night I seem to run into Chad all over the place. He participated in the Sheila Poole 10K, then he was at the Dragon boat races and I convinced him to join the team for the Rum Running races as well. He's a great sport and seems to really enjoy anything that comes his way! I'm sure we'll run into each other again soon! Hope you all like the pictures!!
Theme Song for today: Rat Race by Raine Maida
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