These sugar-sweet Disney coloured pedalos are resting for the night on the Puerto Pollenca beachfront content in the knowledge that more suckers will be along to rent them tomorrow.
Multicoloured, attractive and childlike they look but innocent they are not.
On our first holiday in this corner of paradise many moons ago the Carmichael clan hired one of these beasts and pedaled, full of bliss, out onto the high seas. Well, a few nautical miles into the bay anyway.
Daughters various slid, swam and climbed off and on our transport of choice.
They were having so much fun I decided to join in.
Mistake.
The slide down was easy, the entry to the water elegant and the playful splashing just what the doctor ordered.
However, getting back on board proved to be another story entirely. So entirely it would be fair to say that I could not drag myself out of the h2o at all.
The girls found it funny. Mr C had to pedal twice as hard and me? Well, Yours Truly hung on for dear life as I was dragged kicking and screaming (literally) back to the shallows.
Remind me to tell you about my rescue from the Go Ape safety nets one day soonish.
Other multicoloured entries can be accessed here Where’s my backpack? And my favourite this week is – drumroll….. http://wp.me/pKVAM-kO because I’m now looking up flights to go to Maine because of these shots and also upping my resolve to buy a caravan!!!!!! Thanks Tish, all I need is a bigger bucket list, not.
being mrscarmichael 
[ROFL] Now you’ve gone and done it – I can’t get the vision of you being dragged back to shore by one of these ‘toys’ out of my head! and I still think they look too small for an adult to use those slides 😀
“Come in Number 9”
Just be warned and if I can help any other pedalo hirers BEFORE they walk the plank – it’s all good.
Oh my goodness. I needed this laugh to end my work week. Thanks so much. : -)
My pleasure TSC. I needed it too because I’ve put my neck out big time and after two unsuccessful trips to the osteo am now on massive doses of valium – s am picking up on jokes a minute or two after others.
Hilarious story! Thanks for the laugh.
BTW I love the picture as well. I never saw something alike before.
Just remember to look but not try 🙂
I’ll keep your advise in mind =]
Note to self…no pedalo play for me!
No play for you!
No time for play, I’m too busy eating Belgian chocolate!
Oh Lordy.
Indeed!
Another fun thought to consider you kicking and screaming as you hang dearly to one of these contraptions. Yes, that thought is quite colorful!
as was the language I’m sure but cannot remember 🙂
Yes, it’s probably one of those things you want to forget. 🙂
Hysterical,but not! I think my kicking and screaming would have drowned out yours! Not to out do you! I’m jus a-sceered of the water 😆
and therefore you might not have been so stoopid as to slide in the first place 🙂
memories are made of this 😀
Yes and get better through the years.
Well thanks very much Mrs Carmichael for favouriting my multi-coloured. Maine IS absolutely a wonderful place, though Tina Schell says ‘don’t go in winter.’ We only saw a little bit of it too. Didn’t even reach the wonderfully wild places. But the lobster rolls…and the seafood chowder…mm-mmmm.
My pleasure and yes, I think self preservation would cancel out the winter months which I imagine are quite a few.
Makes for a great picture and a funny “ouch” story, although I’m sure it wasn’t at all funny at the time and maybe not so much even now.
janet
Janet, I’ll give you funny now. Certainly not then. I think I had a bottle of Rioja to recover that evening.