Ok, so imagine going to a beautiful beach on your day off. You enjoy a nice long hike to get there and you’re so excited to swim in the beautiful blue waters. When you get in the water it’s slightly warm and pretty shallow so it makes you want to go further out into the ocean. So you go further out into the ocean and you’re having a good time laughing with your friends. Then a man on a boat passes by about 20 feet away from you and nonchalantly says “crocodile crocodile” as he points to the water. What would you do? Of course he’s joking and just wants to mess with the Americans, so you laugh and say “haha you’re funny!!” When all of a sudden a “crocodile” pokes it’s head out of the water just a few feet away from you!!! Of course, then you run/swim and it’s everyman or woman for his or herself. You’ll survive just as long as you out run your friends right?! LOL
Yes, this happened to me and a couple of my friends. I probably would have been the one that got eaten if it actually were I croc lol. It turns out that the creature in the water was not a croc, but a monitor lizard. We got a pic of it as we passed it in the boat. My other friends got some funny pics as we were trying to scramble out of the water….maybe I’ll post those some other time :).
Ok, so another random story. One night our squad leader Di took me and about 10 other girls to eat torpedo soup!!! YUM!!…not so much….it’s bull penis soup! yep that’s right bull penis soup. We bought one bowl for the entire table and shared it. Let’s just say that the bowl was enough to feed one person and a table of 10 girls ate less than half of it.
I have so many more funny stories…hopefully I’ll be able to tell you in my blog or in person once I get back from the race. I tell better stories in person 🙂
