Swim across Sun Moon Lake (3)

The Swimming 3
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It took us 2 and half hours to cross the lake. I was a bit in a hurry (oh well, I want to check whether my dad is OK, and also, I am a very impatient person). However, I'm also worried about Akiko, what if she diappears in the lake? I didn't abandon her the whole trip. However, there is no rush, really, the slower the better since you are not able to enjoy this water and this scenary if getting on the shore. I was too bored waiting, so I invented a number of way to sit, sleep, hold our floating device. I almost like sun bathing in the lake (the result is not very good, my back has a big X from my bathing suit).

When reaching the shore, I held no anticipation to find my dad in the gathering point, but to my surprise, he came up to us in the finishing line. What a relief, I thought there is going to be some work to find him in the crowd.

Just like last year, I polished the whole lunch box (what a waste not to finish the food in your plate, it is not environmental friendly, either). Feeling all good, we took the boad ride back to where we started. I recovered Akiko's bag with all our clothes miraculously from the side of the street (I really had no choice but leaving it in the side of the road).

Finishing the swimming without any glitches. But I found that I have bigger balls than most of the guys attending this swimming acticivty in our group. Some of them is worried about swimming in the place that you cannot touch the floor (hey, this is a lake, what do you expect?) Some of them whinning about the coldness, some of them wondering where to put the eye glasses. Oh my god, be a man, purse your lips and try out the adventure yourself. There sure would be unexpected, but that shouldn't be anything unhandlable for a 40 something old.