nycmermaid | Can't stop the rock

I woke up at 6:15 this morning and went on the Downtown Boathouse's weekend/holiday 3-hour kayak trip in the Hudson River. Except it was more like 5 hours. We paddled from 56th Street to just after the GW Bridge. For all my experience kayaking, I had a pretty hard time. Getting there was slow but not bad (we stopped for an hour at a riverside park) but on the way back, the water was choppy and we were going against the current, and I got seasick and had to be towed the rest of the way. Pretty embarrassing. I am so wiped out right now. Paddling wide rivers is not the same as paddling creeks and small rivers, where the current does a lot of the work. And since it was overcast I wasn't as careful applying sunblock as I should have been, and the tops of my lower legs are sunburned. Tingly.

But feeling fuxausted is no excuse to not bake a pie to bring to my aunt and uncle's tonight. I made a peach pie using the recipe from my pie class. It's in the oven right now. I'm pretty proud of myself considering that I still feel like I'm swaying. :b

I really want to be a good kayaker and the only way to do that is to keep trying. But today was so hard, I don't want to think about doing it again. Maybe I should check out the Long Island City Boathouse again; at least their boats are all tandems, which means I'd be sharing the paddling. I'm going to Delaware Water Gap next weekend with Dyanamic Outdoors. I did that same trip last year and remember it being pretty leisurely and not too hard.

Tomorrow is zoo day. Oy, when do I let me take a break?