It was a slow day of paddling today and unfortunately we did not make it to our original night one destination. I am not upset about it though because the campers got to have fun jumping in and out of the canoes. We also played a game of truth or dare while paddling. There were mostly truths being chosen, but every now and then someone would be brave enough to pick dare and we got creative with our dares. For example, paddling with the paddle upside-down, holding a spider as long as possible and Josie even dared me to put three drops of iodine on my tongue. It makes your tongue go numb and it tastes terrible.
I have a camper this session who has decided that he does not want to call me Sammy and only refers to me as Miss Schmitz. Every time he would ask me a question he would start with “Miss Schmitz”. I felt a bit like a teacher.
Knowing we were not going to be able to make it to our original campsite, we decided to head for the campsite on Skiff. On the way we passed a little island with benches on it. We stopped to check it our and although it had benches and a nice fire ring. There was nowhere to put any tents. So we named the island Fisherland and continued on.
When we finally made it to Skiff Riley and Zara’s group were also there due to not being able to make it to their campsite. It was too late for us to continue on to the next campsite and there is two fire rings at Skiff so we shared the island. We had a group guide meeting with them and mapped out our game plans. We both wanted to go to Painted Rock and see the pictographs from the Native Americans but we did not want to be running into each other the whole trip. Tomorrow, my group will go to Painted Rock and they will go to Fadden’s island; and then the next night we will switch.
