May 15, 2007

Gary is looking forward to this weekend’s Adventure Skills Workshop. He still wakes up at 3 a.m. worrying about the time factor, making it from one activity to the next. He finally decided he’d just do as many activities as he can and not worry if he can’t do all he’d like to do. Then he woke up at 3 a.m. worrying he wouldn’t make it to lunch in time from some activity. I told him to pack a sandwich. :-)

He isn’t sure he’s going to be physically able to do all the different activities. He kept bringing up waterskiing as a case in point. I couldn’t figure this out until I realized he’d forgotten that in the movie we saw of the Workshop while at Shepherd, they show that the waterskiing is done sitting down on a wide “ski.” I started laughing, asking him, what did he think, they expected the paras (paraplegics) and quads (quadriplegics) to stand up and balance on regular skis? In which case they were probably scratching their heads each year why so few people signed up for this activity!

He also isn’t sure about rugby. He thought the quads would have a definite advantage. This got us into some more dark humor laughing, where I commented that yeah, all they’d have to do was aim their three hundred pound chairs at the lightweight Quickie chairs the paras use – but I also noted that once a quad goes down, he’s down! So all the paras would have to do is gang together and take aim at each quad one at a time . . . .