What kind of Date is this?

KEITH:

"Hey Love, we are getting babysitters and we are going out beaver hunting with Chris and Shell. It will be a double date"

Now, tell me, if you heard your sweet heart say that to you, wouldn't you think it so romantic? Well I thought this was going to be the BEST DATE EVER!!! I love going hunting with my husband and I love it more when I get to hunt too! So we got it all set up, got the babysitter and got the boat ready, got the snacks set, and we were ready to go. It was my first time to go down river and my first time to go beaver hunting. The weather was nice and the river was beautiful! We first went to Chris and Keith's bear bait station. NO bears around so we were off to beaver hunt. I am SOOOOOO excited!! 

In my mind I am thinking "THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME! I can hunt beaver and then make my own beaver mittens! I can say I shot this beaver MYSELF!"

So the trip home was to be a collection of beavers. After a quick snack of bear Sausage and granola bars. We were on the hunt for Beavers. Keith got one. Chris got one then Keith got one and then Chris got another one. I was so excited! SURELY it was my turn next. So I grab the gun and say "I'm ready" Then I heard my dear, loving, unbelievably kind husband say

 "Love, You can' hunt beaver"

ME:

"WHY THE HECK NOT?"

KEITH:

"You don't have a trapping license."

ME:

"I am NOT trapping it, I am shooting it!"

KEITH:

"Well here in Alaska, you have to have a trapping license to shoot a beaver"

ME

" DUHHH, that makes a lot of sense!....... SERIOUSLY? I can't hunt a dumb beaver because I don't have a trapping license? Then why did you tell me, WE were going to go beaver hunting with Chris and Shell. When you say WE, I think that implies ME too. Why didn't you tell me this BEFORE getting in this boat???????"

KEITH:

"Well, I didn't think you would want to hunt"

ME:

" Since when have we ever gone on a "hunting" date have I not wanted to use the gun?"

SO I am fuming right now! I could not believe he didn't tell me that I had to have a trapping license to shoot a beaver!!! What kind of rule is that? Well I went back to holding the net while they were hunting beaver. Well part of our hunting trip was hunting ducks. So I then said to Keith 

"Let me shoot a duck"

KEITH:

"You can't!"

ME: 

"Well WHY THE HECK CAN'T I SHOOT A DUCK? Do you have to trap it too?"

KEITH:

" You don't have a duck stamp?" 

ME:

"What do mean a duck stamp?"

KEITH:

"You have to buy a Federal Duck Stamp to hunt ducks"

ME:

"You mean to tell me, you work for the Federal Government and you bought yourself one and you didn't buy me one while you were at it?"....." Then you plan this "date" knowing I didn't have a trapping licenses or a duck stamp and you didn't ask me if I wanted to hunt?. And the only people that can shoot are you and Chris?What kind of date is this? This is not a date, this is a MAN DATE! "

So yeah, I was a little bit upset that I could not even shoot a duck! And then I asked him for a fishing pole so at least I could do that, due to the fact that I am a subsistence user. But guess what..... Yeah... All the fishing poles were left at home. DUDE Keith, Strike three you are out! =) Next time  we go on a "date" with a gun..... I better have the ability to use it with out getting arrested!!!=)

After I got over it....OK so I am not quite over it, but when we continued hunting I helped pull in some huge beavers! It really was a fun trip but because it was my husband I can't let him forget it!

 Keith, I Love you, But I will never let you live this down! And thanks to Kenton (Keith's supervisor, who I told the story to and he thought it a EPIC story,  he won't let you forget it either! hehehehehee

 

 Shell, who at the time I didn't know didn't shoot, so she was told we were just going on a boat ride. See Keith, If you would have said that I would have said OK lets ride in boat, but NO you had to tell me WE were going Beaver hunting!=)

 Beaver look out

 Duck hunting

 ONE GIANT BEAVER