Anyways, we started off on Friday with a crazy bike ride through the woods near the cottage, my BF and his buddy were setting a brutal pace and riding the most insane trails I've seen yet, these things were like a foot wide on the edge of a mountain and they had fallen logs on them and tons of crazy dips and turns, I kept thinking I was going to get thrown off my bike! It was nuts! I was keeping up with them ok on the climbs but the psychos were just tearing down the downhills at speeds that just scared the shit out of me while I was hard on the brakes trying to keep control of my bike. Oh my god I don't know how they do that!
After a nice lunch we headed off to the beach for some swimming and lazing around. We were out in Georgian Bay on a windy day so the waves were huge, well, huge for a lake. It started out with 3-4' swells when we got there but before long we were in 4-5' waves which is pretty freaky if you're not used to it, I was since I'd been doing open ocean swims since forever, the boys weren't and they were tossed around like corks. Jovan & Rebecca (my buddy's friends) had joined us for our trip to the beach and they were being knocked around by the waves too, Rebecca had her bikini top knocked out of place by the waves which I'm sure the guys enjoyed but she just freaked and screamed!
We kept walking and swimming out further into the lake until our feet no longer touched the bottom, we were still getting bounced around by the waves and some of them would break over our heads and people would come up sputtering, so instead of just floating and treading water we swam parallel to the shore for a while. we stopped for to rest and I saw that my BF was swimming for shore, and that he was struggling and not doing well at all so I swam over to help him out after making sure everyone else was alright. He'd been swamped by waves and swallowed too much lake water so he was coughing and trying to clear water out of his body and dead tired but otherwise ok. I helped get him to shallower water and went back to join the group in the waves just in time play lifeguard and drag another coughing sputtering body to shallower water, and with this it was decided that swimming in deep water was not a good idea for them. They'd all had enough anyways and went back to the beach to recover.
But I needed a good swim so I swam out another 100 yards or so and then went along the beach for a while before turning back in. It was a good swim, for a lake, but I don't recommend it to anyone who's not at home in the water like I am. Anyways, we spent the rest of the day drinking beer on the beach and playing football and wresting each other in the sand until the sun started going down. A couple of the guys weren't looking too thrilled that they got beat by a girl!
The next 2 days were pure mountain biking days, we just ate and biked all day. One night we went for a walk at night over to some sand dunes to relax and watch the stars while having yet more beers and booze to drink. We had to go through a forest to get to the dunes so my BF decided to play some hide & seek and scare the shit out us. He'd sneak off into the trees and wait for us to go by and then jump out screaming right in front of us before disappearing into the forest again. It didn't help that we were already a bit tipsy and that the forest is completely dark. So we got the dunes where we beat up my BF and tied him up with his jacket before rolling him down the dunes for trying to give us heart attacks, after which we broke out the drinks and lay back to watch the night sky. It's dark up there so we could see everything, the milky way, Mars, some shooting stars, and even the aurora, it was so beautiful!
Anyways, it was a lovely little vacation and we had so much fun, and we even found time for some lovin'.
