I don't even like lobster...

Today was a pretty fun day. I honestly don't even remember what happened this morning...oh yeah, I slept until 10:30 with Elli...AWESOME! We had lunch and then decided that we wanted to go tubing! Not the kind that you are being pulled behind a boat, but the lazy-river kind.

Once we got to the rental place, it started raining. Ofcourse it did! Then it let up a little. But when we piled into the van with 7 other people we didn't know, it started just pouring the rain down. Ha! What a great day to decide to inner-tube! So while we were sitting there in this van full of strangers, staring at the downpour, silent, I said "So, does anyone know any good songs?" and we all busted out in a round of 'walking on sunshine' and the sun came out, the bird were singing, the air was warm...and then Joy elbowed me and brought me back to reality.

The rain did eventually stop and the sun did come out, but it was 10 degrees cooler and the water was so cold! The water in the Wisconsin river was really low, so there was virtually no current, and on top of the wind blowing us in the wrong direction - it took Dave, Joy, Josh, Amanda, Mike, and myself 3 hours and 14 minutes to go 2 miles. It was beautiful and I saw several eagles, Mike caught a little fish in his hands (what a man), and I would probably do it again....but it was a LONG and slow afternoon. I don't even like lobster and here I am almost as red as one because it took so much longer than anticipated....I don't think I stopped paddling with my arms more than 5 minutes the whole time - unless ofcourse, Mike was pulling me as he was walking down stream.

It was a nice change of pace. The only disappointing thing about the day was that none of us did any of the "dares" we tried to get eachother to do...high-fiving the people running the tubing place, float past the exit spot while the people are standing there taking rafts, and other silly things. Mike did do a nice flop into the water off of a rock...that was pretty funny....

One day left in the North Woods!