Tupper 6/26/18

Sylvia and I took a day trip over to Tupper. The goal was to get my working papers sorted out, and so we did that and then explored around The Wild Center for a bit. (Or should I say, my place of employment?)

I forgot the magic that The Wild Center has when you haven't grown up there, how it feels to not know what's around each corner, to not know how it was created. The museum must feel just like a museum and not a home, to so many people, but it's weird for me to think of it as a place you stop in once to never return.

The Wild Center feels like a safe spot where I know what happens and why, a place where I know where every path leads, a place where I've learned so much of what I know, a key part in making me who I am. And more importantly, it has wifi.

I'm still working out whether I can technically get people in for free but I managed it today, so? Yes?

After we finished (ran out of time. It truly is a place that you can never finish.), we headed across the lake to camp, where I proceeded to realize that, wow, this place is actually really great. I guess I've gotten so used to the amazing places I've grown up in that I haven't really recognized how beautiful and magical they are.

Willa, you are going to FREAK OUT.

We paddle boarded across the lake to a tiny little rock island, and I proceeded to anger about 7 nesting gulls. Oops?

The magic in paddle boards is that they make you feel so powerful, like an actual queen, on an journey to the middle of nowhere. It felt good to be surrounded by nothing but the universe, with a paddle in my hands. I'm on a hunt for a cute sundress in a primary color (yellow?) (maybe like this, except obviously not that.) so I can fully achieve the cute princess look. I know I'm not a sundress person guys. Let me try.

Sylvia convinced me to swim, so I got in the water but NOT VERY HAPPILY, SYLVIA. I'm just so not a water person.

We did catch some minnows though, then shoved them in a jar and named them after coop humans.

Then we went and kayaked around the island, to make sure my arms are hurting tomorrow.

On the way home, there were only 4 other cars on the ferry, and it felt like clearly the natural thing to do was to get out of the car and just bounce around like idiots. Jessie has taught me well, and I think all 4 other cars on the ferry were very impressed by my bouncing skills. Overall, a good day!