Canoeing (?), Part 2

If you will note the question mark in the title, and are wondering why the heck it's there, we didn't do the canoeing part of the trip, since the river was flooded. Which has me confused, since Darcy and Lil Justin said it was fine. (There were two Justins there, the one in my class, and Lil Justin, just so you don't get the two confused.) Meh, with our luck, we probably would have jinxed it. Oh well.

We got the the Bleriot Ferry campground around 5-ish, and started setting up our tents. Stephanie had brought a tent big enough for 10 people, which was funny, since there were only 4 ladies on the trip!!! No crowding worries here!!! I think it was Levi, Cam, Stephen, and Zach who had set up a tarp shelter on a picnic table, they regreted it later on! But we'll get to that later.

Oh yeah, Cam sliced his thumb trying to get his knife open, it was deep enough that Mrs. C had to take him in for stitches.

Dinner was sloppy joes, with the buns having been swimming (had to use something other than red!) in butter during frying. But it was still really good, new fav. recipie for sloppy joes! (No offence meant, Annacond). Pretty good, for being James's cooking. Darcy and J. Jr showed up in time to eat the leftovers.

Kolton showed up around 8, while we were playing archery golf. He brought his guitar, and I got a short lesson from him. (Man, he's almost as good as the guys from church!!! (almost)) Amanda thinks we were hitting on each other, but I think she was just jealous. Myself, I don't even like Kolton that much!

The rain and wind started around 9:30, and stink, it was cold!! (Tom, you cursed the trip, with your wanting rain! Dangit!) The wind was blowing all the rain into the guy's tarp, so they had to bunk with the other guys. About half of us crowded around the fire or on the bus, but either way, we were always pigging out on junk food. When we were in the bus, we were all singing praise/worship songs Really Loudly, the PCA Junior High way!!! I think the guys were making the bus bounce with all the jumping that was going on!!! It got annoying though, when Zach and Big Justin started pushing each other onto me and Amanda.

We all stayed up til about midnight to wait for Kolton's dad to pick him up, since he was going to be dirt-biking or something like that today. James offered to stay out all night with him, but we all wanted an excuse to stay up even later! THEN, after Kolton left, we ran back out to the tents in the rain, and after fastening screens, changing, and digging out extra blankies, we didn't sleep til 1! (Actually, James said that Matt, Zach, and Levi kept him up til 2. He also accused us ladies of talking, but I was mostly asleep, how could I be talking?!) The majority of us woke up at 7, which was semi-annoying, with everything in the tents still anywhere from semi-damp to drenched. I rediscovered why I never sleep on wet hair if I can help it, my 'do the next morning was... um.... interesting, to say the least!!!

While most of us were packing the tents, the guys (including Cam, who had returned from the hospital by now with 5 stitches in his thumb) all went out gopher hunting with the archery equipment that we had brought from the school, and came back with one dead gopher. Big Justin was annoyed that he couldn't shoot the little rabbit that had been hopping around since we got to the campsite. Mrs C was kinda grossed out by the gopher, but Mr Z was impressed! ( I think he was more impressed that they hadn't shot each other in the proccess!)

Around 12, we got to Horsethief Canyon, where we were told to find all the little Post-It notes that Mr Z had hidden. Micah L, Micah A and I gave up around the 6th note, with only 3 left. We had to climb all over the canyon, across the stream multiple times, landed on a couple of cacti (owie), landed on a lot more evergreen and rocks (more owie), and discovered the hard way that Badlands rock, after a rainstorm, has about as much grip in it as half-melted butter. The term Mr. Z used was "greasy", and he wasn't that far off!!! It was pure nastiness, and I think I wrecked my jeans, and came darn close to ruining my cool skater shoes, my sweater, and one of my knives. Oh well, I survived (but barely). (Ya know, the Micah's, as well as Big Justin's group, said they saw a hawk circling over me while I was climbing the last hill. Weird.) And there was more food after we found our way back to the bus, which was good.

And that, in brief, is an Outdoor Ed 'canoe' trip. Whoopie joy.

(Oh yeah, in case I forgot to mention... I'm going into Grade 10 next month! Yay!!!! Now I have exams for most of next week, but oh well.... Summer's coming soon!!!! And we got our yearbooks yesterday... very cool!!!!)