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Once everyone was over by the dock we pulled all the canoes together and held them by the gunwales again. I looked over at the canoe next to me and saw this:

This is just so Rebecca. :D

I started laughing, unable to stop myself. Patrick must have thought I was laughing at him. “Ok everyone, stop talking, laughing, whatever you’re doing and listen to me.” I made the mistake of looking at Rebecca again and we both started giggling. I managed to stop giggling before he could look at me though.

Patrick explained the game we were going to play. It was called Dragon Hunter or Dragon Chaser or something like that. You would throw out your stern (the back) “painter”, the string that was connected to the back. The person who was “it” would try to make you be a Dragon Hunter too by grabbing your painter and pulling it.

Jen and I did pretty well in this game! We managed to keep Patrick at bay for quite a while. We would turn our canoe to keep him in front of us at all times, and we managed to do it for about 4 minutes, which seemed like it was forever. 😀

I think my favorite part of the game was when Kayce was one of the Dragon Hunters. He was in the stern of his canoe, and he was trying to get the painter of one of the other canoes.

He was trying, trying, and trying even harder to get his canoe close enough to the other one that he could reach the painter. I guess he gave up, because all of a sudden he leaped out of his canoe.

I had turned just in time to see him launch himself out of his canoe. He grabbed at the painter on his way down and caught it. He went under the water, and the canoe that he was holding jerked as the line was pulled.

Maggie was in the bow of his canoe, and she started yelling as she almost fell out. He came up to the surface grinning, the painter held up over his head in victory. That was one of my favorite moments on the water. 🙂

After a while we did some more racing. We lined up at the docks, and Patrick went about half of the way out.

“All right y’all. The first canoe past me will get a treat. Are you ready?”

We all yelled to Patrick that we were ready.

“Ready, set, GO!!”

Everyone was doing their best. The people in the bow were paddling as hard as they could, the people in the stern were steering as straight as they could.

Jen and I were out in front, but it looked like we had company. Bruce and Bobby were coming up behind us, and they were moving fast. Jen started yelling at me. (Ok, not really yelling. More like… Um, it wasn’t yelling, but it wasn’t really anything else. :D)

“Brett, we can NOT let them pass us. C’mon Brett, you can paddle harder!”

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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.*