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The annual women only trip took place at Village Creek State Park May 17-18. If you weren’t there, plan to come next year. It is a great fun event.
Seven hale and hearty women (Anne Olden, Donna Grimes, Lilia Deschamps, Ann Derby, Mimi, Cindy Bartos and Mary Carter) met at our luxurious accommodations at 10:00 am Saturday morning, dropping off food and beverages, and sleeping stuff at the cabin. We scouted the creek and decided that we would paddle upstream from the cabin and then leisurely float back down stream when we felt like it.
First we launched our crafts down a steep slope to the creek. Thanks especially to the muscle power of Donna and Cindy we all made the put-in safely and gracefully.
We paddled upstream until lunch called and we stopped on a nice shady sand bar for sandwiches, drinks and other goodies. We paddled on upstream with the wind in our faces getting gradually warmer. And finally decided it was time to go swimming. We floated back downstream and stopped at the sandbar across the creek from our cabin and went swimming. Lovely.
Waiting for us on the cabin side of the creek was the uphill take out. Challenging but not daunting for the intrepid seven!
We solved most of the world’s problems over wine, chips and salsa. Then after we figured out that “pine needles rock” to start charcoal, we dined on the patio on hamburgers, rolls, salad, veggie side. Thoroughly delicious.
Dessert was a wonderful birthday cake for me with candles and cards and a T-SHIRT. Thank you all for making this birthday very special.
Sunday morning was a feast of bagels, cream cheese and fruit. One final question was answered: “How many women does it take to burn a bagel?”
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