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The next hour passed relatively quickly. For a while I was in my sleepwalking mode, but I woke up when someone in the front of the line started singing.

“Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast”

Then someone else started singing Can You Feel The Love Tonight, and most of the girls joined in. When I started singing, Luke groaned.

“Really? I’m sandwiched between a bunch of girls who are singing Disney love songs. Really??”

I hoped the guys wouldn’t start singing other songs to try and get us to stop. It hadn’t really worked when they tried it before, but I didn’t want them to interfere with my Disney songs. (I’m a bit of a Disney freak. :D)

When we stopped singing the love songs a couple of the guys started singing with us. Apparently the love songs were too much, but Hakuna Matata was ok.

I started to hear water rushing by. I prayed that we weren’t going to have to cross this creek, because it sounded like it was a really, really big one.

I shivered as the trail shifted, bringing us closer to the water. We were hiking right alongside it, and I was starting to get scared. My heart rate was climbing and I was starting to breathe heavily. I tried to stop it, but I couldn’t do anything about it. Just thinking about it makes me start to panic.

We got our first sight of the river and I stopped moving – I was too scared to. Luke bumped into me from behind and stepped to the side, looking at my face.

“Are you ok, Brett? It’s just a creek – you’ll be ok. We’ll help you across. You’ll be fine. C’mon – we’re losing everyone.”

It was just a creek? Then that was the biggest creek I’d ever seen. Almost as big as the river we’d been canoeing on a couple of days before.

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