Friday, August 2, 2013

Day #7 -- Relaxing!

Today I woke up at 7 AM, had a piece of raisin bread, and headed down to the lake.  Two motor boats took the swimmers (seven total), kayaks, and all others across to Diver's Rock (Val and I paddled over there yesterday).  Some of the swimmers jumped off Diver's Rock (about a 10 foot jump) before starting the one-mile swim.  My job was to paddle alongside the swimmers and be ready to get over to any of them if they got tired or in trouble.  Thankfully, no one did.  After a little while of swimming in the big group, about five headed on faster and there were two slower ones.  Val and I stayed with each of them, while the motor boats stayed with the bigger group.  All the swimmers said it was very nice to have the two kayaks; they felt more protected and secure.  It took around an hour for everyone to get across, and it was a lovely time of day...the sun was glittering on the water, it was pretty cool, not much activity was happening on the lake, and the weather was perfect.  I'm glad I did that.  After the swim and everyone was dried off, we had some breakfast (oatmeal and orange juice) and then relaxed and talked.  Lunch was assorted sandwiches (trying to use up everything we have), chips, and milk...funny story alert.  Val was not paying attention and I had set my sandwich (maybe three or four bites left) down for a minute.  Val didn't look down and she picked up my sandwich and ate it all up.  I looked at her and finally she figured it, so then we both started laughing really hard.  The hilarious thing is that her sandwich was a completely different kind but she didn't taste the difference!

After lunch, we went for a nice long swim and relaxed on the raft.  We also relaxed on the hammock, checked in to our flight for tomorrow afternoon (can't believe I'm already leaving), got some shopping for supper done, and made supper (a yummy dip with avocados, sour cream, beans, cheese, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, chips, etc.; tomato tart made my yours truly...many good comments; leftovers...turkey, beef brisket, salad, cucumber salad; dessert...brownies, ice cream, blueberries).  We enjoyed two slideshows of photos taken by Val's dad, and now I am ready to go to bed.  Tomorrow I will be cleaning/packing up/flying home.  Is it already over??!  I can't believe it, and I'm glad to have had this opportunity to be with my very favorite friend in a beautiful, cool place.

~Anna~

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