He swam, said that the current was really strong in the area, and had a tough time swimming it out. He filmed some, but found that it wasn't as interesting as he thought it would be, so he was like, oh, nah. He only filmed it for 10 minutes and then came back to where I was and climbed out of the water up the wall.
He said it was dull, but wanted to try again where the current wasn't as strong. Of course. His first video is here:
Freediving The Weehawk from Steve Savage on Vimeo.
So he went out and tried it again and said he found more parts of the ferry and was more interesting so he was filming more and more. *smile* We just went to the area yesterday and he found that it was more interesting and he had found an area where I could sit in the folding chair and just put my feet in the water. It was nice, though very, very hot under the sun. He got to swim a lot and explore a lot more so he enjoyed it this time. We had a bit of a picnic there while he finished up with his swimming. Here's his second video on the Weehawk.
Freediving The Weehawk v.2 from Steve Savage on Vimeo.
The past little while has been pretty crazy for me healthwise, I was feeling really off lately, and not feeling so great. My kidney was driving me crazy, in a lot of pain and I was feeling very uncomfortable and going to the bathroom was hurting a bit, so I was afraid I had an infection, and since I had it for a while, after going swimming all the time into rivers and lakes I was afraid maybe I had something odd. One day I found that I had a yeast infection, which I was surprised at, so I got some treatments to get rid of it, and was hoping it would get rid of it, but I was still in a lot of pain, so the next day Steve decided to take me to the Brockville General Hospital (since I didn't really have a doctor yet, I'm in the midst of transferring doctors at the moment which sucks! *laughs*) so I went there, and we spent most of the time waiting. I think we went there around 3:30-4 in the afternoon and waited, and waited, then was told I had an ear infection while they checked me over, then waited, then we got in a room, then waited, then was taken for an x-ray, as I had told them I do get kidney stones sometimes, then waited, then had a bunch of doctors come in and out. They said I probably had an urine infection as I had bacteria in my pee. So whatever then. By that time I had been in the hospital for 7 hours waiting, I was okay with a prescription for antibiotics and went home at around 11pm in the night. I was really, really tired and very hungry as we didn't get supper in the hospital. It really did suck. We got back home and ate, and then the next day picked up the prescription for the two infections.
I started taking the pills, and then realized that once the pills were done, I still had pains in my kidney and midway through the antibiotics, I found that I did have kidney stones as the pains were moving along my kidney to my bladder. *sigh* The stones never seem to show up on any of my xrays though. It was a pain in the friggin' ass. But at least they are moving through so the kidney is feeling less painful now. Oh well. But at least my ear infection was cleared up so that helped a bit.
I tried to avoid swimming for a little bit until my yeast infection was gone, but after the treatment was done I realized I still had it, so I was all, hey, what's wrong with me? So I decided to make an appointment with my new doctor and hope she would give me some help for my yeast infection, I wasn't even sure if she had my records yet, so I met her for the first time, and she was surprisingly young. I think she was probably younger than I was! *laughs* It was a little weird, but she was a nice woman so oh well. I got checked over and I did still have it, so I got some medicine for my infection so hopefully it'll be better soon. Not fun being sick in the summer, that's for sure. Ugh.
At one point in July I was thinking I needed to renew my passport before I couldn't anymore. My passport had expired in the beginning of the year, and I wanted to renew it before I had to get it all over again. You had to renew it within a year after it expires so that's what I wanted to do. Oh well. So I had to get my pictures done, and Steve and I decided to go to Walmart to get them done. When we got there we had found out that they had a special going on, when you get a passport photo done, you also can get a photo session free along with one picture for free. So Steve and I went ahead and had pictures taken of us. I really wasn't expecting it so it was a little weird for me, but it was a little funny having it done though. *smile* We got a collection of 7 photos done, five of both of us and one of each one of us. It felt a bit cheesy to have pictures taken of us, but we got some good photos though. We ended up with a huge photo of us both, a 10x14 photo, so that was crazy. *laughs*
Anyway, I had been invited to my brother and Kelly's wedding party that was coming up in the end of July, so I was going there. It was on the 28th of July, and it was interesting. It was a wedding party, in Presqu'ile Provincial Park. We all got to hang out in the sun, heat and water, and just enjoy ourselves. Because Steve had been so tired and always busy at work and stuff like that, we decided to carpool with my mom and John to save on money, especially for parking as we had found out that it would cost 14 bucks per car for parking, so yikes! Steve didn't like that part at all. Wow. So we agreed with mom and John that we'd carpool with them. It was interesting, because Jase had asked me like a few days before the weekend to take Christine with us, and I was like, but we're carpooling with mom and John? So I wasn't sure so I asked my mom and she knew that the car would be full of stuff that we would bring to the park, so she said no, wouldn't be any room. *laughs* So I had to let Jase know and Christine know. So that she could join someone else who lived in Ottawa to the party.
The party itself was interesting, pretty fun. When we first got there, we said hey to everybody, and then Steve and I went to check out the lake but the first thing we laid eyes on when we went to the beach was a dead carp on the shore of the water. It was gross, but I was used to them, as I see dead fishes every time I go swimming in a lake or river. They are just gross though. Oh well, so Steve and I went swimming and it was different. Later when one of Kelly and Jase's friends went swimming there, Karen, actually picked up the dead fish with a stick and threw it out of sight. That was a little gross for me but it was better anyway. The water was all rocks but very smooth and big rocks so it was different. *laughs* The water was really warm so it was nice swimming in there.
We had arrived early in the day, so we were there before most of the people and just said hi to Jase and Kelly and Kelly's family. We swam, had some food, talked and once people started arriving, I began meeting different people, a lot of them I grew up with at school so I was catching up with them, such as old friends like Brenda and Ken, and their son Brandon, along with Christine, who arrived a little later. It was nice seeing them again and just talking.
We had a potluck dinner and just talked and relaxed and ate. After dinner Jase and Kelly started opening presents and just talking, and thanking everybody. Mom, John, Steve and I left soon after the gift opening. It was an interesting day, long, but an interesting day. My mom ended up really liking the park and wants to go there again herself and just enjoying the beach and the water. There were less people there than the beach in Sandbanks that she often goes to, so she liked that part. Heh.
I've also been looking up on different kinds of lenses I could get for my camera, the Canon 7D, and my EFS 18-135mm lens. I wanted to get either a wide-angle lens or a macro lens. I especially wanted a macro, because my lens itself doesn't get that close to things I want to photograph, I wanted to get a macro so to zoom in things even more. And I've been looking in stores and the price range for lenses for me would be between $200 to $1500. So they were pretty pricey. :/ There's a macro, wide-angle, and telephoto lens that I would love to get, but they are all really expensive. I don't mind getting them eventually, but still too expensive right now for me to get. But the funny thing is I was looking up other methods to get things zoomed in and stuff like that, and there were talk about turning your lens in backwards, and stuff like that. I thought that was a little...crazy. *smile* Then Steve found this one site online, for Opteka lenses. The lenses were between 20-100 bucks, that's it. I was confused. You just use your current lens and put the lens over it. I thought that was really different, but looked at samples online with people who uses those lenses, and they are quite nice, that's for sure. Quite nice. So I decided to try a macro - it was only 30 bucks with shipping and handling - it may have some duty on it, but I'll find out when it arrives, may be like 5 bucks more. But that's...cheap! *laughs* Hopefully it turns out to be just as good as it's shown to be. If I end up not liking it, then okay, it's only 35 bucks. If I end up liking it, I may get the other lens they have, the wide-angle lens and the telephoto lens. That's pretty cool. Something to try for now, that's for sure. I don't know when it'll get here, but when I do get it it'll be something to experiment with. It'll be a lot of fun. Heh.
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