Swan Lake
On the local church property sat a lake, home to a family of swans. I learned that the name for baby swans is signets, and we also learned how protective parent swans can be. We flipped an old row boat and decided to take a spin around the mossy top layer. The male swan put on a very puffed up performance, making majestic and threatening swoops across the lake, flapping aggressively, and making gutteral throaty squawks to warn us from getting too close to his babies, probably. The incident sparked an hour-long debate about whether a swan could really "take" a full-grown man in an unarmed conflict.