Post-Meeting Paddle on the Silver River

After the first OAR meeting of the semester, we embarked on a night paddle down the Silver River. Though I was promised monkeys, I did not see any. We had a fairly large group for a post meeting activity, so we crammed as many people into each canoe as we could. I accidentally hopped in backwards but I stayed that way so I wouldn't have to paddle. This backfired horribly. Carolanne, who was facing me, accidentally smacked me in the eye with the end of her paddle, popping one of my blood vessels. So, at this point, this was the most injured I had ever really been on an OAR trip (my injured ankle at Gregory's Bald ended up feeling fine by the time I got to the car) and it was my own fault. Even then, I still had a lot of fun racing down the river and battling the other canoes with our paddles. 

Events occurred: August 23, 2012