After weeks of intense beat downs at the Zissou searching for the man eating Jaguar Shark of Lake Ponchetrain the krewe needed a little rest to focus for the arduous tasks ahead. Because when we find the Jaguar Shark we are going to kill it and then we are going to eat it!
Nothing breaks up the monotony of life at sea, than a good game of shuffle board. At the Zissou our pucks are 10lbs dumb bells. A player takes the puck, they swim underwater on one breath as far as they can. When they have ran out of breath they drop the puck, return to the surface, and complete the lap. Their partner then swims to the puck, dives to the puck and continues the process. While one team member advances the puck, the other alternated between 5 Mericans and 10 LBCs. Goal is to get more “Puck” laps than their opponents.
Following the rousing game of Shuffle Board the krewe sought out the traditional past time of playing catch. To prep our throwing arms we began with a ring of fire. Hard but not impossible, water does burn. Reference the Cuyahgoa River Fire of 1969 (http://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire). We began treading water in the deep end as we passed a 5 lbs kettle bell around. With the bell we did 10 arm lifts on one arm and passed it around. When it returned to us we did 10 on the other. So much fun we had to do it a second time to insure limberness of the krewe.
Catch continued in the deep end but we replaced the kettlebell with a medicine ball. A good time ensued as we passed the ball to and fro. It soon got out of control as the game morphed into rapid fire hot potato and then into weak arm throwing of the ball.
Nearing exhaustion we circle up for the COT. Soon we will catch the man eating jaguar shark of lake Ponchetrain and avenge our friend’s death!
