Ken, his friend Dave, Randal, Randi, and I went canoeing and tubing for the day. Randi was a little unsure of what device she wanted, the tube or the canoe? I knew she'd love the tube once in and moving. Of course she had to get used to the "freezing" temps of the water,60 degrees I'm guessing, which were probably at the peak in terms of warmth for the year.
She picked the tube! Loving it, we eventually tied her on to the canoe.
Randall just loves any adventure!
Oh and I forgot to mention Reggae who traveled with us too!
Here's a view of some fire damaged forest along the way. Still looks beautiful!
Yes, we did contend to some rapids. And no, I don't know the rating for it. And yes, we had everything in a dry bag: food, camera, change of clothes, sun screen, bug spray. And yes, that was a good idea because well, we flipped! Yea. Randi by then had joined us in the canoe. All three of us went right into the "freezing" cold rapidly flowing fresh water! "To shore" was the command by Ken and Dave, as I scurried to save the floating flip flops. Randall had Randi and the canoe back to shore safely. And Ken and Dave were right there down stream paddling to stay with us. No big deal, really. We had our life jackets on as we should have. The only real bummer was that the clouds came out and made it for a quite cold 2 hour row to the truck at least for Randi and I. We all had expected a 90 degree day for the voyage. But, you know those weather guys!
Now Randi, who did inquire as to why do we needed to wear those bulky cumbersome jackets, truly understands why. You just never know. Sometimes lessons are better learned by trial and error than just heard by word of mouth, really.
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