Actress Jennifer Garner, daughter rescued from shipping channel while kayaking in Sweden

Credit: Dia Dipasupil

Credit: Dia Dipasupil

Actress Jennifer Garner took to Instagram this week to poke fun at herself after she got lost while kayaking in Sweden.

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Garner and her 12-year-old daughter, Violet, took to the waters while vacationing in Stockholm when something went wrong. Garner admitted they ended up in a shipping lane and had to be rescued.

"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," Garner wrote in a post on Instagram on Monday that showed the pair kayaking in silhouette as the sun set behind them.

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"Did we have to be rescued? Yup," she said. Garner also praised her daughter, saying Violet never complained about the unusual adventure.

The 46-year-old actress has starred in hit film such as “Pearl Harbor” and “Miracles from Heaven.” She has three children with ex-husband, actor Ben Affleck, whom she divorced in 2015.

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