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Kayce got into the car, food in his hands. I looked at what he had and grinned – it was granola!! Granola was like, the best breakfast food we had. It was amazing! Even with powdered milk (which was not a good experience after drinking goat milk for the last 6-7 years) it was still good.

Everyone passed their bowls forward eagerly. Granola was the one meal we all agreed was yummy, and we were all hungry! I took the bowls from Kayce and handed them back. In your bowl was granola and powdered milk – you would add water from your water bottle.

Once they had their bowls, everyone else poured their water in. I chose to wait until after we got off the gravel road. Which turned out to be a good decision – everyone else was wet by the time we got off the gravel.

When we were on a real road, I took my water bottle back from Bobby (who had borrowed it because his water bottle was rolling around on the floor) and poured it into my bowl. As I was pouring it, we went over a bump. So despite trying to not get wet, I still got wet. Stupid bumps. LOL

We got to the “put-in”, where we were getting into the water. We all grabbed our stuff from the van and put it onto the picnic tables scattered around. One of the adults told us where we could go pee and than told us to start unloading the canoe trailer.

I stayed out of the way while they got the canoes down. I was too short to reach all but the bottom ones, and by the time I was done cleaning out the car the bottom ones were off the trailer.

Once the canoes were off the trailer, the adults called us together to give us our canoe partners. The guys were all hoping to be paired up with each other, and they stuck next to each other. They started reading off names, and I was paired up with Jordan. There were only a few people who got the partner they wanted, but we weren’t allowed to switch around.

There were only a few people who were happy with the partner they got – Bobby and Bruce were together, and they were happy with that, and I think Luke and Sarah Margaret were relatively happy that they had been paired up.

I had forgotten something in my pack, so I asked Jen if I could get something out of the trailer with our gear in it before it left. She unlocked the trailer and helped me find my pack.

We pulled my pack to the front of the trailer and I sat down to open it. I looked out of the trailer, at the river, and couldn’t hold back the tears any longer. Jen looked at me, clearly confused.

“Brett? What’s wrong?”

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*Everything here is from my own memory and may not be correct. Outward Bound is not responsible for anything I post here. Thanks too NCOBS for letting me use their photos.*