- It is Soooooooo0 hot outside! I don't have air conditioning! What should I do? Go to a movie all day? I mean it...ALL DAY? Or should I, like, go and hang out at the mall? I could just drive around in my car with the AC on for a few hours. The peak hours of heat...that is a good idea.
Here is a better one. It is kind of novel. It is kind of new. Nobody has thought of something this innovative in years.
Find a water source outside and go frolic in it! This is what I did today. I went to Stony Brook State Park, just outside of Dansville, NY.
This picture is not from todays adventure, but this is how fun it is. The water is cool and refreshing. The currents are amazing, and the wind created from the falling water is astonishing and sometimes breathtaking, despite the 93 degree heat.
My friend Kim and I went with the intention of hiking a bit (I am trying to break in new boots) and then putting on our suits and wandering the waters.We went to the ladies locker room and put our bathing suits on. There we were, 30 year old women, walking awkwardly to our car with our towels and bags covering our bodies, feeling strangely naked in our bathing suits. I felt like I was wandering around in my underwear and that everyone knew it. When, in reality, we are women. We have womens bodies and we should act proud about it. We have gotten this far with them. They seem to be working. What the hell is wrong with 'em?
There are children walking around everywhere in their bathing suits. Their suits are falling half down, riding up their butt cracks, covered in mud and dirt, sagging in all the wrong places...they don't give a damn. That is how it should be. For everyone. It should be that way for everyone.
I settled into wearing just my suit and my Keens and thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon. There is nothing better than sitting in moving water. It sooths that aches and the soul. The largest fall at the top has a nice cool pool at the bottom of it, and I waded in until my hair was blowing from the force and the water was hitting my back. Water never falls in a consistent pattern, so each drop and splash it a shuddering surpise on your body as you stand in the fall.
I had to get out because I was cold.
By the time we got to the bottom of the falls and back to the car, I was starting to get hot again. By the time I arrived home, I was sweaty and irritated by the heat.
Forget the evil we know so fondly as AC. It is recycled air. Go where the air moves and the water moves with it!
Oh, and bring seven dollars. It costs seven dollars for natures air conditioning. I remember when it was only five dollars. Does that make me seem old. Any "I remember when ___ cost ____" is an old statement.
