We just got back from our visit to the Van Dusen cottage, just want to thank Mike and Mary for hosting us yet again. The girls had a great time catching up with Ciana and Elise, and now Adriana has some summer memories of the cottage to add to her winter ones. Speaking of which, Adriana was the cause of much hilarity at one point that I almost bust a gut! Adriana was eating her lunch one day and asked Mary innocently: "Why does your cat not come to the cottage?" I guess her question was worded a bit confusingly, so Mary parrotted it back to confirm it. "Why doesn't my cat come to the cottage?" Adriana replies with "I don't know!" Classic Abbot and Costello "Who's on First" comes immediately to mind, as Mary tried to repeat the question again to make sure she understood the question. Mike and I just cracked up, me so hard, tears came to my eyes.
Another source of laughter (or frustration for Larysa) appears to have come with apparent inability to row a boat. I took Adriana out in the rowboat, at her request, only to find that whichever way I rowed, we always seemed to head into the shore. After several attempts, with Adriana howling in fear ("Mama gonna crash!!!!"), I managed to get the rowboat back to the dock. At that point, Larysa appeared and said she'd be willing to try the canoe with us, maybe we'd be able to successfully navigate around the lake in that. Within seconds, it became apparent that I had no idea what I was doing, and we ended up in the shore several more times, with Larysa's howls of "Mo
m, I thought you said you could steer?!?!" adding to that of Adriana's. It took about 10 minutes of backwards and forwarding to finally get the canoe into it's mooring place and I topped the whole misadventure off by doing the classic splits of one leg onboard and one on the dock with me in the water in the end. Oh, the shame!
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