A Damsel In Distress…
Not too many people know, but I’m a part of a canoe club! It’s so much fun and I’m blessed to know quite a few people who are involved in our team.
Aunty Laurel, who is the team’s manager, had written up a little email article about something that had happened one evening during practice. I wanted to share it with my wordpress community and my readership! I thought it was hilarious, but it doesn’t matter what I think about it – as long as the others think it was equally funny! Hahaha…
I really felt a sense of team work, problem solving skills and kokua for someone who needed help in her time of need. I’m so blessed that I am apart of this team of people who have huge hearts! I can’t think of a better senario with better people!
It’s one thing to be a part of something bigger than you – it’s another thing to be a part of something bigger with people who are in their own right, bigger than life themselves! Enjoy…
————-by Laurel Silva—————–
PADDLES UP!
What a blessed evening we had at the canoe site yesterday!
We had a very large turnout for the barbeque, fellowship and paddling session.
Thanks so much to Daniel, Steve and Charlie for spear-heading this activity.
They have officially been nominated to coordinate future holiday and special occasion events.
Everyone agrees, they did a bang-up job.
Also, thanks for everyone’s flexibility regarding the last minute notice.
A special thanks also goes to anyone who assisted our “damsel in distress” last night.
Lexi and her car was trapped behind the cement pillars and could not be on her merry way (at least as quickly as she had hoped).
No, no, no….not without a little help from her friends and a big, huge monster truck (smile, Peter)
Alani and his jeep made a valiant effort to move the 10-15 ft. cement, steel reinforced pillar, but to no avail.
Everyone’s pushing, pulling, cheering and, otherwise, great ideas on how to move the massive obstacle, also failed to result in a positive outcome.
After 30-45 minutes of brain-draining brilliant ideas to create an opening for Lexi’s car, someone had the beyond-brilliant idea of using a lonely truck that was sitting in the corner of the parking lot (looked to be a cross between Alani’s jeep and a full-blown monster truck). It was just waiting to show it’s worth and value….to prove what it was made of!
Anyway, come to find out it was Peter and Shiloh’s Dodge Ram 2500 truck (sorry, Peter that’s all I could remember of the name).
Well, anyway, their 4-wheel truck moved the pillar lickity-split.
And within a short time, our damsel was rescued.
But wait, after all was said and done (get ready for a good laugh now), it was discovered that the lock on the gate to the parking area where Lexi was stranded, was actually unlocked, and in the end she drove out of the gate and not through the opening that the monster truck worked so hard, huffing and puffing and kicking up clouds of dirt, to create for her.
I think there’s a good spiritual analogy in all this. Hum-m-m-m.
Anyway, we all had a few good belly laughs and we all went home with a few more outragiously funny memories of our canoe club fellowship. Can you believe it, even I acquired a new title of “the funniest stand-up comic” last night (Peter, what can I say, you just have the nack of bringing it out of me.)
Lexi, emailed me to say how impressed she was by everyone rallying together to help her. She stated ”I feel so much a part of something greater.” And, gang that’s what it’s all about…
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So you see, team work makes the dream work! Mahalo to all my trusty team mates, I love you all!!! 
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