Dreams:

I went on a short (maybe we planned to spend one night out) canoe trip with some friends. But during our first day out the canoe was tilting badly. I theorized that there was a leak in the bottom and so the space between the outer and inner hull was filling on one side (real canoes don't usually have two hulls; a leak would have been obvious). Fortunately the place we were in was less of a river in the wilderness and more of city streets, but water. So after a trip or two around the block we pulled up to the bus stop in front of my parents' house, had lunch, and bailed on the the canoeing.

We still had to get the canoe back to the rental shop, though. This was accomplished by strapping it to the top of my Geo Metro. Afterwards Fizz got into the car with me and I was trying to drive us somewhere else, but was having trouble remembering which pedal was the gas and which was the brake (a common theme in my dreams about driving). We were driving what seemed like east on highway 30 (there were trees on each side of the highway ahead), and as I turned onto an offramp I found that I was accelerating instead of slowing down. I did manage to slam the brake pedal just in time that we didn't go careening through the red light at the bottom. I was very shook up about this but Fizz thought it was awesome.

In a completely different section of dream, I left my car parked next to some hospital as I did some activity in a park nearby. This seemed to take place overnight in a suburban part of town north of the river. The town looking nothing like Madison (maybe more like the town from this dream, which also had a river through it), though the neighborhood felt like it may have been the same one to the west of Ben's house from the dream about walking to Ben's birthday party.

Anyway, I don't really remember the reason for me being there, but just that there was some minor challenge around getting back to my car. Maybe I had Marilla with me and was trying to meet up with Sara, but the exact meeting spot was ambiguous.

This part of the dream seems to have dithered into a part about a bunch of dwarves marching northward along a completely different road towards some battle. Maybe I was one of them, and I was helping to prepare some seige weapons, or mend people's backpacks, or something.

Eventually Sara, Marilla, and I were all together again and it was time to head home. There was a very tall bridge that we would use to get back south across the river with lots of steps. Just as the dream was ending I had a vivid image of a twisty and complex but also pleasantly symmetrical system of tubes, each of which contained a stairway, connecting different walkways at the base to the bridge's decks.