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Jennifer Garnermeant to take a simple mother-daughter getaway.
OnThe Tonight Show Starring JimmyFallon, thePeppermintstar, 46, toldthe hostthat she took her daughter Violet, 12, on a trip to Sweden because her oldest child became fascinated with the country during a school project.
During their Nordic getaway, they decided to go ona simple a kayaking outingthat was supposed to last just 10 minutes. Garner recalled, “An hour later, we were not back, and not only that, all of a sudden, there were huge bridges going over, there were big boats, and [the waterway] went from very small to quite wide.”
Garner — who is also mom toSamuel, 6½, andSeraphina, 9½, with exBen Affleck— continued, “And then Violet … said, ‘Mom, there’s a stop light in the water.’ There’s a stoplight, and through the stoplight, it’s a loch to the ocean. And so then, we start feeling a current pulling us to the ocean.”
Garner called the kayak company, who unhelpfully told her to just turn around. “Suddenly, we saw this blond human with the sun behind him like a halo, and he was coming to our rescue. He showed up, and he led us back. And his name was Mattias!”
She gushed, “I’ll never forget Mattias.”
Garnerpreviously opened upabout her ordeal on Instagram.
Alongside a gorgeous sunset snapshot of the kayak, she wrote, “On a pre-middle-school sneak away with my eldest… Did I get us lost in a kayak? Yes. Did we paddle as hard as we could for 100 hours and end up in a shipping lane? I’m afraid so. Did we have to be rescued? Yup.”
She then posted a selfie with Mattias himself on her Instagram Stories and wrote, “If you’ve seen my post today… This is Mattias! Our savior! Thank you, @bipsterpersson!”
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Violetwon’t be posting on social mediaabout her trip any time soon. Garner recentlytold Fox News, “My kids don’t have any social media yet, and I am terrified.” She added, “I think it puts so, so much pressure on kids at an age when they’re really vulnerable anyway.”
source: people.com
