survived

siggimus went river rafting saturday & survived!!

*picks nose*

please excuse that, but sometimes there’s just no stopping those buggers…

took colleagues river rafting in hvítá river (more like a greenish brown, actually) on saturday

first steps into the river were tough. cold.

brrrr cold!

the first splash, dousing the siggimus head, most of the ice cold, dirty, glacier water subsequently running down the siggimus neck, getting his t-shirt & underpants wet, was not quite as bad

gradually, siggimus got used to that

there was rowing & cheering & loutish hollaring & making fun of people in other rafts during the calm bits

a brief stop, where the completely insane are free to jump off an 8-metre cliff into the river, at their own risk

about 5-6 were insane enough to actually jump

all of them surfaced

nothing serious broken

then off again, for a wee bit of rowing & rafting & being heroish

the moment things quieted down a bit, wars were declared

one raft out of six had a buckety kinda thing for shoveling water out of it

mind you, this contraption was mostly used to shovel water into the other rafts & onto the people in them

compared to the measly oars the others were equipped with to splash with, it was indeed a fearsome weapon

& consequently, coveted by the crews of all the other rafts

soon, guerilla warfare was afoot, with pirates jumping from ship to ship trying to steal stuff or throw people to the sharks

siggimus ventured over to the best armed ship & attempted to get sonja the cute into the river

it didn’t work (while puny, she is cute & had 4 burly men at her disposal, holding on to her) & sonja looked at siggimus with great surprise & a tinge of hurt in her big blue eyes: “but siggimus!! i thought we were friends?!!?”

about 5 mins later or so, siggimus manages to scramble back to his boat & his crew

still dry

mostly

annoyed at having his plans thus thwarted, siggimus starts looking for another victim

finds one in the enemy

just misses her as her boat passes by just out of reach, but instead grabs on to the next wee chick; karlotta

it took about 5 mins of tugging & pulling & huffing & yanking & puffing, but siggimus finally manages to get her in the water!! yay!!!

just as he looks up to celebrate & scream “1-0 for siggimus”, he sees mr. petersen descending through the air, arms flapping, landing next to him, ready for a bout of wrestling

in a split second (no time for rps!), siggimus realises he’s going down & decides to take someone with him; grabs back on tight to mr. petersen & jumps overboard in a graceful summersault

2-1

muddy. cold.

eventually siggimus makes it back into his boat, letting the water drain out through the legs of the suit

shortly after & way too soon, they get to the destination & wade ashore

hot chocolate & 60% stroh greet the cold & wet & dirty travellers

in about 20 mins or so, some feeling started returning to the siggimus feet, the water in his sneakers making a squishy sound

after a quick change of clothes (a short experiment proved that litres of water could be wrung from each and every piece of clothing siggimus had on), beer was guzzled & food eaten & songs sung & shins bumped into stuff & laughters laughed

all in all, not a bad day 🙂