Back to the Indian Mounds

September 2, 2007

It has been a very busy summer. Jason went out west to fight fires for 2 weeks and I have had Taekwondo summer camp and 3 tournaments. Even if we had not been so busy it has been to hot to do anything. It's not really any cooler now but since it is officially September it seems cooler...maybe.

So anyway, for labor Day we went back to the Indian Mounds with Jason's brother Chip and his friend from New York, Anne. This was a long trip for new paddles but Jason wanted to take Chip to see the mounds. There were two things we did not take into account. First Anne has never paddled before and second the kayaks that Chip borrowed from his friend were short, fat barges. So it was a tough trip but Anne was a trooper and did a great job. She did fall in once but we won't talk about that here because we already gave her a such a hard time:-) . The round trip was about ten miles and in one section there were a lot of low limbs and long jams so it was constant steering back and forth from bank to bank.