Number 10 on
Auna's List of Loves is sailing, and appropriately so. I have been sailing (quite literally) my entire life.
Don't believe me? Here's a picture of my family's boat.
(Hey mom! Look at that! You now have a picture in my blog!)I should note though that they no longer own this boat. It blew over in a windstorm about a year or two ago and they now have a different boat -- that I have only been on once.
Now I know what you're all thinking. "Auna, go back to what you said before about quite literally sailing your entire life!" And yes, it is true. Provided that my parents have not been filling my head with lies all my life, my first time on a sailboat was when I was 2 days old.
Two days. Yeah, I'd like to see someone else stake that claim.
This isn't to say that my life and the sea were all sunshine and puppies though. I quite hated sailing through my teenage years -- and quite honestly, who wouldn't? Sharing a space on a 36' sailboat with your mother, father, brother and kitty cat. But people always told me, "Auna, you'll love it when you're older..." "Auna, you'll miss it when you're older..." and you know what? Damn it all, they were right.
Would I go on another 6 week vacation with my family on a 36' sailboat? No, actually, I probably wouldn't. But that's just because that's a mighty small space to share with three (four including the kitty) members of your family.
And certainly, I do love sailing more than any other recreational activity of the sort. And I love all kinds of sailing: sailing big boats, sailing little boats, windsurfing, parasailing, pirating...okay, so those last two I'm lying about and I have never done, but the rest are honest!!
And there is no place that I'd rather venture by boat than the north shore of Lake Superior (which my parents are re-visiting this summer which. Me = jealous).
Maybe someday when I have a job and I get my summers off, I'll buy a nice livable sailboat. Because really, I do love sailing. :)
On a completely unrelated note, I am going to be in a comic strip! My good friend from school, Carl, writes and illustrates an online comic and after a lot of persuasion from me, he agreed to make me one of the characters! So check me (and the rest of his comics) out!
http://crazycstudios.comNext up on Auna's List of Loves:
#9 - Astronomy
