Spring Break

Lets see, what all did I do? I had so much fun canoeing that it is hard to remember what all I did before canoeing. Tuesday, I took a neighbor to work and spent a few hours in Lindale getting bolst and chatting with a few old friends before going home. When I got home, dad and Zach were sanding down my canoe. I took over and finishe sanding my canoe. Dad found some sort of mat type stuff and we put it on the canoe with alot of fiberglass resin. The mat stuff did not go on the canoe like it was suposed to, but it made the canoe alot more stable and fixed some of the cracks that were starting to form. The resin still is a little sticky, it never set up for some reason. Wed set up a heater so that maybe the resin would dry and then I ran all over town looking for a 7/16" fiberglass tent pole for my tent so that we could use my easy to set up 3 room dome tent verse the old cabin tent that uses what seems like 100 tent pegs. Never found the tent pole, but I did go buy a wooden rod out of th ecraft section at walmart that was the correct size and cut it to length. We packed all the supplies wed, set up all the tents, cleaned all the cleanable coolers, and loaded the canoes. Thursday morning, we lookied at the diffrent river gages and the weather reports and decided that it would be to our best interest to go down to the Hill Country here in Texas. We found a camping spot on the Lower Guatalupe river and then jumped in the truck and headed out. We got to the camping spot around 4 ( don't really remember, don't wear a watch or watch the time on the radio when on vacation), set up the tent, and unloaded everything to start dinner. We had a spot rivht on the river. It was nice to have the river right beside the camp during the middle of the summer, but since the Lower Guatalupe is fed from the bottom of Canyon Lake, that brought the temp down about 15 more degrees than everywhere else. Thursday night everyone but dad and I froze. On Friday, we talked around and decided that the Upper and Lower Guatalupe had too much water in them and that we should probably just run the San Marcos river. We put in at the city park and canoed down to Spincers Canoe rental. We had a blast. I turned over once, but it was a welcome turn over because I was starting to get warm. Uncle Tommy bailed out on us because he was afraid that it might be cold again that night, so Sat we did not have anyone to shuttle us. Saturday morning, we slept late and then packed up. On the way back, we went to my cusin Mike's house and stayed there till around 9:30pm when I finally pryed dad out of the house so that I could make it back to school on time Sunday. We madeit back to my house with me as the driver about 3am or so. Everyone but me slept well on the way back. I did not sleep so well, but I guess that is a good thing. More later. I have to go to chapel now. Later.