SCUBA!

Ok, just completed Day 2 of intensive Scuba camp, and after 4+ hours in the pool today, I am exhausted. It has been really fun, and overall easier than I expected. Except for the whole removing-and-clearing-your-mask-underwater thing. Try that with contact lenses. Now try it with contacts & an involuntary, unconscious urge to breath in through your nose. Yeah, it completely sucks. But enough of that! Here are some valuable tips I've picked up from Barb, my dive instructor:

• If you see a shark, don't panic. Remember: you don't have to outswim a shark; you just have to swim faster than your dive buddy. Ever wonder what that dive knife is for? To cut your buddy's achilles tendon to ensure you can do it.

• Go now or forever hold your pees.

Also, my dive partner for the class was this cute 14-year-old boy who looked JUST like Justin Bieber. His name was Jacob, and I had to be really deliberate in not calling him Justin! Baby, baby, baby, Ohhhhh...

More to come. I'm too tired to draw or to write anymore, and I have a whole 2 chapters to read in my Scuba text tonight. Ugh.