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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
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Birthday Canoe Trip

This week marked Kristin's Birthday, and we celebrated by inviting a bunch of friends out for a canoe trip! There's a company in our area called River & Trail Outfitters, which facilitates local adventures along the C&O Canal and the rivers that flow nearby. Their services include renting canoes, dropping groups off at one point along the river, and picking them up downstream at the end of the day. They made it very easy for us to organize a trip, so on Sunday afternoon, 10 of Kristin's friends got into little boats with her, and together we all paddled about 7 miles along the Shenandoah River near Harper's Ferry.

We had a fabulous time. The weather was just about perfect (although it did rain a little bit for a couple of minutes) and while it was only a half-day trip on the easiest category of river, the trip was just the right level of challenge for our tastes. It was jolly good fun!

Kristin & Alison were in the first canoe, with the others being crewed by myself & Greg, Gina & John, Melanie & Suzete, Luisa & Andrew (it was Luisa's birthday, too!) and since we ended up with an odd-sized number of [odd] people, the final boat was a Kayak, captained by TV Tom. Here you see our entire group, posing together on a cluster of rocks we "discovered" in the river and paused at for a break.

Gina describes the canoe trip in the GinohnNews this week, so I'm going point you over there for more details and otherwise just let these photos speak for themselves. (Each is worth 1000 words, after all.) I should also point out that most of these photos were taken by Gina (both of my cameras are currently broken) so you can click on them to see bigger versions. (Are higher resolution photos worth the same number of words as their low-rez counter-parts?)

AndyThanks for reading, and have a great week!


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