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I looked over by Tullia and saw what she was looking at. I stepped back a step, stepping into the water.

Luke came over to us and asked Tullia if she knew that it was dead.

Tullia and I looked at him.

“The snake is dead and no one told us?!?!?”

“Apparently not. Isn’t it a cool snake?

I cut in on the conversation. “You think that’s cool? It’s creepy! Boys are so weird.”

“How can you think that’s creepy?”

I tuned him out and grabbed the paddles on the ground. If I listened, we’d be arguing all day. I didn’t really want to spend the rest of the day arguing about how creepy dead snakes are. LOL

After getting all the gear put away, we put our boots back on and changed if we were changing. I decided to keep my wet clothes on – Jen and Katie said they would dry faster if they were on us. I did put my long pants and a sweatshirt on over my wet clothes, because I was cold!

We all piled into the car for the drive to our campsite. Everyone was damp, but at least we all smelled a little bit better! I know a couple of us took advantage of our swim assessment to try to get some of the stink off. 😀

While we were in the car, I thought back to when Bobby made me help him move the canoe and realized that it had been good for me. Pretty much my entire course I was afraid to help with things, because I was the smallest/weakest and I just got in the way. But by making me move that canoe with him, Bobby made me see that with help, I could do things.

That doesn’t mean that all of a sudden I was super helpful and helped with everything, even if I was getting in the way. I still didn’t help too much with the bear hang, unless it was my night, and I didn’t do much with the canoes without lots of help. But there were things that I did that I wouldn’t have done before he made me do that. 🙂

We got to our campsite and opened up the trailer. Everyone took their packs out and we stood in a (sort of) circle to get our instructions.

Maggie, Katie and I were going to work on dinner a little bit up the hill, and everyone else was going to go set up the camp further up.

People started pulling kitchen items out of their packs. I don’t remember how we got it all up the hill – I think Katie made them carry it up for us.

I grabbed my pack and headed to where we were going to have to cook. Maggie, Tullia, Katie and I were talking, laughing, and working on dinner. Tullia was with us because she had gotten dehydrated, and Katie was making her drink two of our water bottles.

Guess who got to cut the salami? Me!

Colter and I agree – the knives we had on our courses were the worst knives we have ever used. It took me almost an hour to cut the salami.

We were in the process of frying the salami to add to our alfredo noodles when we heard the first thunder. Maggie, Tullia and I looked at each other in alarm. I muttered a prayer – I really, really, really didn’t want it to rain.

Katie told me to bring my backpack up to camp and put it under the tarp, in case it started raining. I put my pack on and started up the hill, groaning. After one day of not using my hiking muscles, my legs did not want to go up that hill. LOL

But I had to, if I didn’t want my stuff to get wet. ‘Cause it was about to start raining. I could tell.

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