This weekend, Dr. Hayden had a lab party at his beach house on the Sunshine Coast, which is a 40 minute ferry ride up north on the coast. I was so excited to be on a ferry (seriously, they have pretty much everything you could ever want) and I think all the local Vancouverites in the lab thought my enthusiasm was pretty funny. Dr. Hayden's house was absolutely gorgeous; in fact it was even in a magazine as a designer home.
The highlight of the day was when me and two other grad students in the lab borrowed Dr. Hayden's kayaks. We headed straight out in the ocean rather than staying on the coast as suggested and as we got out there, Martin flipped over in his kayak! Kusala and I were able to flip his kayak back and help him into it, but there was too much water for him to go anywhere and we had no water pump! We weren't worried at all actually, and I couldn't stop laughing. The irony was that I spent the afternoon mocking Martin for not jumping into the ocean because it was "too cold" and thus I found it pretty hilarious that he was now in his clothes rather than swimsuit and completely soaked. Kusala and I had a plan to drag Martin and his boat to a nearby island so we could dump out the water, and we were on our way there when a motorboat showed up to help. Apparently everyone back at Dr. Hayden's house was watching us through a couple sets of binoculars and they witnessed the whole thing! So what we thought was no big deal turned out to be a huge scare for everyone back at the house. Who would have guessed it?
wow - gorgeous house!!
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