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Glenn laughed and told us that there was a good spot to eat coming up, right before our next rapids. Everyone cheered, and I think we were all moving a lot faster than we had been. I’m not really sure, but my arms started killing me from paddling. LOL
We made it to a spot where the bank wasn’t three feet above our heads. It sloped down to make a (kinda) beach. We all paddled over there and tied our canoes to the plants along the edge.
I hopped out of the canoe and waded through the knee height water to get to land. I went to find a spot to go to the bathroom – Jen had told us to just pee in the river, but there were a bunch of other people hanging out in the river. 😀
When I got back, the cooks had lunch out and had started preparing it. I found my bowl from the stack and sat down on a grassy spot.
Everyone was talking about what we were having for lunch – peanut butter and jelly on tortillas. Nobody thought it would be good.
“You guys, PB and J on tortillas is good! We have it all the time at my house, when we run out of bread. And the boys eat a lot of bread, so we’re out of it a lot.”
They all just looked at me like I was nuts.
I decided it wasn’t worth it, and got in line for my food. Kayce gave me a tortilla and a squirt of peanut butter, and Maggie gave me a big helping of jelly. I almost asked if anyone wanted some of my jelly, but decided that it would be more trouble than it was worth.
I sat down by Bruce and Bobby and ate my lunch in silence. I thought that maybe if I listened to the talking around me, I’d forget that we were going to have to get back on the river.
It didn’t work.
Most of us were done eating when one of the girls yelped. “There’s a huge bug on my leg!”
Bobby went over to look at it. “Huge? That’s nothing! I ate an inch worm yesterday that was bigger than that!”
I didn’t think I’d heard him right. “You ate an inch worm yesterday? Where was I?”
“I don’t know – I think you and Maggie were cooking.”
That made sense. “You ate an inch worm.”
***If you get nauseous easily, don’t read the next three paragraphs. It’s gross.***
“I already told you, yes, I ate a inch worm. It was awesome. I swallowed it whole, and then I felt it crawling up my throat!”
I looked at him in horror. “You what?!?!? It was crawling up your throat?”
“Yep! Then I drank a full water bottle to drown it. And it stopped moving! But then I was nauseous, so that wasn’t cool.”
It’s still kinda gross now, but not as bad as those three paragraphs. 🙂
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. “You seriously ate a bug?”
“Geez. You don’t believe me? Look, I’ll prove it to you! Gimme that bug, Maggie.”
We all watched, mixed expressions on our faces as he put the bug in his mouth and swallowed. He turned to me. “See? No problem.”
Patrick and Katie came over to us. “Bobby, you know that eating bugs is the first part of ninja training, right?”
“That’s awesome! How many bugs do I have to eat?”
I started cleaning up. I was going to have to do it anyway, and it gave me an excuse to get away from the disgusting bug talk.
While I was cleaning up they took this picture.
A couple minutes later, it was time to get back in our canoes and get on the water again.
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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.*
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