Laughters

Have you ever heard the phrase, "Laughter, the best medicine"?

In my condition now I certainly need plenty of that and each day I look out for "laughter".

During the past few weeks when I had the opportunity to live with my eldest brother and his family in the Lion-city, I deeply admire my sister-in-law's simple sense of humour. She laughs everyday at the slightest things that tickle her. She's blessed with a youngest grandson whose personality is so cheerful, it's contagious. He makes us laugh. I really want him to stay contagiously cheerful even as an adult. We need plenty of people like that in this world, don't you think?

Last night I had plenty of laughs looking at some pictures and video clips of a boat trip taken at a nearby dam. It happened to be a public holiday and I had been anticipating this boat trip since forever!

I didn't get to enjoy the dingy thrill but watching the "Musketeers" falling into the water when the over loaded dingy capsized was fun enough for me. Of course hubby would not leave out the fun for me. He let me sit in the opposite end of the boat to take pictures and at the same time balance out the weight. You can see from the picture that without me, the boat was really tilting to one side.

You really have to be there to see how hilarious these people are when they're in the water being swung around by hubby's skillful maneuvering of the boat. Next time, please join us! Meanwhile, enjoy the pix and the video!

11 April 2006 (Tuesday)

This is the beautiful lake (dam) where it all happened

Here is our little hide-out, deep in the forest.

The 3 Musketeers or "Sakai"?

The younger 3 Musketeers

First we tied the dingy to the boat, then we climb onto the dingy. Hey be careful, looks like the boat is about to sink!

Let's try to get two people on the dingy and two people hanging on the side of the dingy

Hey, this is fun...but...but...wait!

I can't wait, I'm going full speed! (Notice the tilting boat?)

Oh no...Dad, we're capsizing! Stop, STOP!

Gulp, gulp...

Finally, everyone managed to swim to safety.

Let's try one person to one dingy at a time.

Getting a hang of it.

Now it's really full-speed ahead!

Wow!!! Hang on tight! Weeee....

That's really THRILLING!!! Faster, faster! Hahaha...