I Love the River and the River Loves Me...

Borrowing a line from the song Amy sang all weekend. "I Love the River and the River Loves Me." In fact that was the only line to the song come to think of it.

We're back from the river and had a great time. The weather was perfect and it was nice and cool while you were in the water. No one came back a total lobster.

Items lost:

Matthew - sunglasses

J.D. - hat

Amy - hat

Wade - hat and sunglasses

Tommy - hat

Items Found:

Matthew - no sunglasses ever recovered

J.D. - a replacement hat that Amy stole from some kids was almost as good as the one he lost

Amy - a little girl found it upstream (not the same one she stole the other hat from)

Wade - Matt rescued the hat, the glasses were a lost cause

Tommy - another camo hat was found on the side of the river and he adopted it.

The river taketh away and the river giveth back.

Matt's mom, Lois, floated with us on Friday. It was not so crowded and we had a great time. We floated in the morning, took a break for lunch, then floated again. Our condo was right on the water and easy to get out there for our breaks.

Saturday the river was packed. I seriously think that in some places you could have walked across the river and not gotten your feet wet, stepping from tube to tube. Bridgette and Wade came for the day. We floated until it started to rain around 5:00. We thought it might lightning, so we hung out at the pool instead of going back out on the river. It never did lightning, but we had a good time anyway. Amy, Bridgette and I did tricks in the pool that delighted and amazed people (mainly us).

Tommy is already planning our next float for sometime next month. We're crazy like that!

Roxie had a good time with Max, Bailey and Jake at Uncle Mark and Aunt Steph's. But she has done nothing but sleep since she got back!