Memorial Day weekend we went to Kevin's annual Memorial Day float trip. Longtime readers and friends may recall that it was on one of these Memorial Day floats trips where Camille and I
first met, so on top of being a fun trip, it's also a trip down memory lane and one of the most special trips that she and I can take with one another.
- We missed the last call for the flight out of Salt Lake by what must have been thirty seconds. It's frustrating to miss a flight, but so much more frustrating when it's by such a small margin. Though we didn't say much, I think we both recounted every lost second looking for a parking space, trying to find the kiosk, and on the road behind traffic.
- We got lost in Muskogee, Oklahoma. That takes talent.
- We arrived at the campground extremely late. We were a little worried about disturbing the campground. The campground, on the other hand, was not particularly worried about disturbing us. Luckily, we were too tired to care all that much.
- Eastern Oklahoma is a lot hotter when you're arriving from Idaho than when you're arriving from Houston.
- The sun was out the whole time. It's amazing how meticulous one can be with sunscreen and then completely forget about the nose (on one day) and then the forehead (on the other).
- They said that it was important that we got to the waiting point at or before 10:00. It was apparently important that we were there to wait for some three hours...
- Kevin and I found this trap on the river where people kept getting stuck. Someone had helped us get out when we got stuck, so we stuck around to help the next person. We ended up helping out dozens. We absolutely had a ball playing in the water and helping people get out of the jam. The water was a welcome relief from the heat and it was good kharma. We started to refer to this place as "Gratitude Point."
- Unfortunately, we didn't have time to stop in Gratitude Point the next day because our raft deflated and we had to wait a couple hours for a new one. Had a good time tossing around the football with Kevin, Callie, Chris, and Chris's wife Christy.
- If I were a single man, I would get a pug. Tom had a pug and the women were just crawling all over him to get to the dog. What do women find so attractive about pugs?
- I was really a bit of a fuddy-duddy throughout a lot of the trip. I was underrested when I got there and never really got caught up. Unfortunately I turned in somewhat early every night except the first (hard to turn in early when you get there at 1am!)
- Unfortunately, due to my late arrival I was unable to help Kevin muster up an audience to go to a Mike McClure show. Jason Boland also played in the area, though it's tought to motivate oneself to going out after floating down the river. There was a band at the campsite the second night there. They were... unimpressive.
- In addition to the bad music show, there was a bad drama show, too. The folks in the camera next to us were having quite the incident. Some girl was there with her boyfriend. Her brother turned out to be there. I can't even begin to figure out what all the fighting was about, except that it escalated to people throwing things (on to our campground) and then one dude jetting off in his pickup before security got there. We were not sorry when they were gone the next day.
All in all we had a really good time. Next year the trip from Austin will be easier than flying from Utah/Idaho and we're very much looking forward to it.
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