Canoe Trip

This semester I am enrolled in a canoeing class. Yes it's true, you can actually get college credit for taking a canoeing class. We were scheduled to go on an overnight trip on October 5th and 6th but we got snowed out. Since we were already excused from our classes for those days we decided to take advantage of it. On Monday night our class met together and had dinner, FHE, and dutch oven dessert! By Tuesday morning the snow had melted so we packed up the canoes and headed off to Island Park. We made a quick stop at Big Springs and fed the fish and ducks some old bread.



Then we bundled up real good and started canoeing down the river.





About 5 minutes after we put in the river we saw a family of Moose! There was a dad, a mom, and a baby. It was really cool.





Some other things we saw along the way were salmon, osprey, hawks, bald eagles, and lots of dead fish. It took about 2 hours to canoe to our stopping point and by then my toes were completely numb. Luckily we were able to warm up in the nearby lodge while our teacher rode his bike about 20 minutes to get the school van. Overall it was a really fun trip and definatly better than sitting in class and taking quizzes.