Thursday's adventure

On my morning walk with my neighbor Jane, the decision was made that we would try and go to Sweetwater Creek State Park to try out the canoes. We got to the park around 9:30, paid our $5, put on our life jackets, picked up our padded seats & oars and headed to the water. The only problem is that neither one of us are too proficient at canoeing and we couldn't even get the canoes out of the rack. Luckily, some guys were mowing the lawns and helped us get the canoes and helped us in. We are still not certain if they were state prisoners doing work in the area. Oh well, they were super nice to help us.

sidebar: when you sign the wavier to go canoeing, it states that all persons must be considered a swimmer. 1 out of 3 in our canoe was not too bad. Sam & I are NOT swimmers! I know Abby would have done her best to save us.

I'm sure we looked pretty funny, two women with two kids in each canoe and neither one of us had experience but we sure had fun. It was overcast and there was a nice breeze. The kids got bored after about 45 minutes but it was lovely.

We then headed over to where the ducks were hanging out. We went through 8 hotdog buns pretty quick. Abby started hand feeding the nicer foul...oops, I mean fowl.

We then drove over to the other side of the park and went on our usual hike, up to the old textile mill.

(Jane, Lewis, Abby, Sam, Theo & me)

We spent nearly an hour near the river and they loved throwing rocks. The water was moving very fast and was very high.

Jane & Sam

The boys walking the trail

The end!

We did manage to do a "mushroom hunt" along the way and found A LOT of cool shrooms but didn't want to bore anyone with lots of photos of fungi.