Back home

We made it back in one piece from Missouri.  It was a nice float trip.  It was beautiful on Friday, but rained that night and pretty much all day Saturday.  That made the last eight miles we canoed very long.  It was fine though.  

Only mishap for us is that we had the current run us into a clump of tree roots and A dropped her paddle into the river and it was never seen again.  It was stuck under the fallen trees.  There were several people that tipped their canoes.  No one was seriously injured, but they lost some stuff including the following:

• Sunglasses
• beer (a downer for all)
• chair
• steak (another downer, especially for K and M)
• lots of ice
• a digital camera (so there won't be too many pictures.)

But all in all, it was a good trip.  I would give the river 4 out of 5 stars (because I'm a river critic, apparently) for the main reason of difficulty.  I do enjoy just floating and getting completely shit faced, but I do like a bit of a challenge, and the river gave us one this year.  The trip, however due to the weather and the awful river camp site (rain, ticks, and mud) gets 3 out of 5 stars.  

I still feel like river water, so I'm grabbing a beer and going to take a long hot shower.  And if you are wondering, cold beer and warm shower are a fantastic combination.