Happy Birthday Jeremiah! We got a late start this morning, so we were rushing to get out the door to make our 10am skype appointment with Josh and Max. On the way to the campground, we passed a convenience store/café that adverstised wifi, so we thought we'd get a good connection for skyping. Turns out the connection was pretty weak. But still tried to connect. Unfortunately, we could not hear Josh/Max. So we waited until Jeremiah finished his breakfast and then went to the car so we could try using the video of skype along with a cell call on speakerphone. (A funny note about the breakfast…they gave Jeremiah a whole gravy boat full of gravy for his biscuit. But I guess normal southerners must use TONS of gravy, because the cook and another worker asked Jeremiah about 4 times if he needed his gravy refilled). We managed only a few minutes of conversating before Josh had to get Calvin from his nap and be on his way to visit Mom. Bummer.
We had planned on paddling today, but when I checked the weather, it showed that there would be passing thunderstorms. We aren't normally squeamish about taking chances with lightning, but since this was a big river with canyon sections, we decided better be safe than sorry. So we decided to have an off day. As it turned out, the skies turned ominous a coupla times, but there was no rain or thunder. Still a nice, relaxing day at camp. I took Cassie on a hike on the trail that starts here in the campground. It's a dual purpose trail. On weekends, it's for hikers only. During the week, it's for biking too. I think it would have been fun to ride that trail on a bike. I've been working on getting Missy to agree to adopt mountain biking as our non-weather-dependent activity.
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