If you ask anyone about me they will tell you that I am good at planning things. I am usually the one coordinating trips and adventures. I will be the first to admit that I have a regular tendancy to overlook things. Sometimes these oversights can be more of a problem than others. This 4th of July my oversight was taking a look at the weather. Even though weather is generally not a deterrent for me when it comes to a weekend in the woods, it is still a good thing to make note that there is a 50% or greater chance of thunderstorms.
My good friend Chad Niernberg came to pick me up towing our boat on Sunday morning to leave for Lake Granby to go camping for a couple of days. As we were loading the truck, I was then made aware of the weather report. Ha Ha, there is no way a couple of hot shots like us are going to throw out a weekend of boating, wakeboarding and surfing just because of a measly 50% chance of rain. Ooooo God, you are gonna have to come at us with more than that…And he did.
The rain was about on par with what was predicted, but the one factor that we did not throw into the mix was the fire ban. After long afternoons with thunderstorms, it tends to be quite difficult to dry tihngs out. Here is where the insight of others comes into play when I make my oversights. Chad took the liberty to bring his fathers tent which is something of valor. Chad mentioned that this tent was a little older, but I was overjoyed to have a true portal through time. The manufacturing of this bad boy dates back to circa 1950, and honestly looks like a tent that may have been used on the set of a civil war film. It certainly has the tailorings of a prop from the set of an old disney summer camp movie. Holy lord almighty, I never realized that canvas does such a good job of keeping out the rain. Here and there were a few leaks, but overall this was certainly a good place to waste a few hours until the rain cleared.
Now, when you have had one to many beers the night before and have been permanently wet for the first 36 hours of a trip, you will have the tendancy to lose your spirit a little bit. You are many times tempted to throw in the towel, pack up and go home, but as I said before–Ooooooo Jesus, you are going to have to come at us with more than that. So on the verge of my spirit breaking and fully giving up, the rain begins to go away and the sun starts peaking through the clouds. I don’t know if you have ever had the opportunity to be surfing behind a boat just after a storm clears and the sun is setting, but this mixed with a few beers is something that everyone should experience at some point in their lives. It becomes easy to forget the fact that you have never been really warm or dry in quite a while, and wish for more. 
And to our luck, we were able to have this happen to us three times in three days…so on that note, thanks Allah, you are a real good guy, we can tack another 3 days on to paradise.
So as for my little oversights, it seems to always work out in the end, but a word to the wise: Friends with time portals are always a good addition to the mix.
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Come back soon, I should have a video up by tomorrow.
