Let's go swimming...with our cell phones!

So last Friday I didn't have to work. So I was sitting around chatting with some friends when we decided that we NEEDED to go snake hunting. Now I have never felt any particular urge to go snake hunting but I had nothing else to do until 7pm, so I put on some comfortable clothes and my only pair of shoes that doesn't fall into the categories of "boots" "flip-flops" or "pretty dress shoes". So we eight headed off into the "wilds" of our nearby ravines. And then a little later another friend got out of class and came to join us.
So we now nine began looking for snakes and other forms of wild life. We found three snakes, two frogs, and a toad or two. In the process of finding one toad, one friend (whom we shall refer to as Moses) discovered some delightful sinking sand. Moses sunk up to his knees-and he does have a bad knee to begin with, so this was not exactly ideal. But Moses and the other males of our company got Moses out of the mud and we continued on our merry way.
And a bit later, we came upon a body of water that we needed to cross...and it proved a bit difficult. There was some debris floating on the surface as well as a log stretched across the creek/brook/stream. However, one of the boys (we'll call him Barbantio) decided that our best option would be to jump across on the debris. This idea was proposed while we were under the impression that the creek/brook/stream was only a few feet-maybe three feet- deep. So Barbantio decided to try walking across the C/B/S on the debris and then fell into the C/B/S. This event convinced Barbantio that he needed to devise a new way of crossing the C/B/S. After a few minutes he decided the best course of action would be to scoot across the C/B/S on the log.
So we all started doing this one at a time. And when it was my turn, I started scooting across the log until I fell into the river...with my cell phone in my pocket. Moses and another friend (Percival) pulled me out of the river and I got back on the log making my way across the C/B/S successfully this time. After we had everyone across the C/B/S, we moved on and began making our way back to campus. At a fork in the road, we split into two groups to see which way back was faster. Barbantio, Rebohoam, and Theseus went to the left and got out of the forest about fifteen minutes after those of us who had ventured to the right. We thought we were lost for quite a long time but in the end we came out near the art building. And to celebrate our survival of the woods, we went to the student center for smoothies.
My cell phone-Mr. Edmund Bertram-did not like falling in the water. He went into a coma for about 24 hours due to all the water that he had taken in but he was disconnected from his battery while he drained and he is now doing much better.

Saturday and Sunday were far less eventful although Saturday I went to a Seder dinner where I saw many wonderful people and Sunday I got my butt kicked in Dance Dance Revolution (DDR for the acronimists among us) by a ten-year-old who can't spell cantaloupe.
But I can spell cantaloupe so I'll go farther in life.