what a man will do for seven dollars

I'll just tell you how the story went...

First, couple thinks it would be a nice day for a float down the Teton River. Wife is prepared with camera, soda, and country music.Husband is prepared with big rowing muscles and awesome shades.

 

Husband and wife enjoy a nice afternoon full of beautiful scenery. Of course, husband must fish.

After all, it is Saturday. And what is a Saturday without a line in the water? Go ahead, ask him. He'll tell you. Surprisingly, husband catches a fish. And then another. And another. Wife is surprised, she has never seen this savage-like side of husband before. 

{Wife is also annoyed. You see, while husband fishes, she has to row and steer and keep them from getting tangled in the willows.}

Just before rounding the last bend in the river, husband decides to throw out one last cast. And what does he do? He gets it stuck way up high in a tree. Wife starts laughing, thinking about how many sad little lures of his are dangling from trees. All of a sudden though, husband hands his fishing pole over, throws his legs over the side of the boat, and jumps in the water. 

Wife has never seen that boy move so fast in her life.

 

Then, he swims upstream toward the lure. Meanwhile wife is panicking as she is floating down river in the boat and the line on the fishing pole is getting tighter and tighter. 

So husband comes back to rescue wife. He pushes her and the boat over to a skinny twig sticking out of the water and says "here, hang on to this."

Wife hangs on.

And on.

And on.

And husband climbs the tree.

And then he yells from top of tree that that lure costs seven dollars. And he will get it down.

Unfortunately, the climb was too risky, on account of the branch was about three inches thick. 

So husband just sat there. In the tree. Mourning his loss.

And wife says that she would really like to know how husband would react if it were her that had gotten stuck in a tree in the river.

And husband says he wouldn't have given up. That he would have rescued her.

No matter what.

{Then I gave him a kiss and said that swimming upstream and climbing trees for seven dollar lures was dumb. And he nodded his head, 'cause he knew I was right.}