Competitions

It began with Xavier & I going to a family cottage on a secluded & deep lake.  The people there already had just finished eating on the fire and had made it too big to cook on anymore.  Xavier & I took a coal and began making our own smaller fire for our food.  (People who were there: mom, Steve, Sean, Jacquline, Opa, Uncle David & a few others).  My friend Nicolai ended up coming walking down the hill to our fire with two other friends.  They had come to Canada a few weeks ago and were camping along the Bruce & had heard that we were at a cottage nearby so they came to visit with us.  We all made some lunch together then My Uncle Dave said that he'd look after my Opa (Xavier & I were supposed to be) while Sean showed us around.  
On the top floor of the cottage there was a long rectangular research lab built out of cedar.  It went out from the steep hill over top of the lake, there were two windows that had a small platform that I thought was for sitting.  As I sat on it the people who ran the lab told me to jump.  The drop was about 1.5 times bigger than the Elora quarry:

I said that I didn't want to & they kept pressing.  Eventually I told them that I'd jump from the dock & see how far down I could swim and they took that.  Sean said that he would jump off since he does it nearly every day.  The people in the lab were trying to see how deep a human could go before loosing their breath & that jumping from a high place would give them more depth than if they were to swim off of the dock.  They continued to say that Sean has been training for over a year and has only made it half way to the bottom of the lake.  Jacquline appeared saying that she wasn't fond of the experiment because eventually Sean will go too far down and we wouldn't be able to get him out.

We continued to wander around the cottage (which was huge).  When we walked through a set of doors it led into my high school auditorium which at this point a the group of people from Community (TV show) came running down the aisles shooting at us & at themselves. They had chosen teams of two, each team had a better or worse weapon (none of which could kill - the guns would shoot air bullets & the swords were made out of flimsy plastic.  Since I had no idea what was happening I was given the Arabian night plastic sword from Aladdin and put in a group of three with Shirley and a friend from elementary school (David). To make it a bit more fair they gave my team a bit more time to find a hiding spot.  Shirley wanted to hide back stage in the costume rack so we could jump out and attack who ever was walking by.  The only problem was that our swords were so large that they were sticking out by a good foot from the top of the clothing rack.  David and I told her to wait there and that we would try to get more equipment.

We ended up going to where all of my things were being kept (along the edge of a look out point).  We climbed along the outside of it clinging onto the railing with our arms.  It reminded me of going along the via ferrata with Xavier.  He had told me to hold on like this in order to save up my strength:

but the bar was too thick and my hands were sweaty from being afraid of the height so I continued holding on like this

hooking my arms around so that the bar was at my elbows.  As we were looking at what was there it turned out to be mostly children books mixed with a few poster cards.  David was telling me stories of each of the postcards which had cartoon characters on them scribbled in ink.
While we were talking what was below us some how turned into a go kart track and the people from Community were racing below us at 200km/hr.  We found Shirley, got into a car but she started driving the wrong way and an extremely high speed!  She kept screaming that she didn't think it was safe and we were screaming back at her that it wasn't as motorcycles were screaming past us nearly going over top of our roof as we went by.

Then I woke up.