Our river trip

This weekend has been full of adventure already and it is only Sunday. I got back on Friday from my week long training on adventure based counseling, what a cool class. From the airport we went to lunch and to look at a Montessori School in town. For the most part I was very pleased with the school, it has a brand new facility for the infants until they turn 2. Each building has its own security key punch and each of us would have our own code to get in. They track who is in at what times so no one can walk off the streets and come in, a plus. There would be 7 babies in the class with Garrett, and two caregivers, best of all no wait list at the moment. I need to check around with other people in the area to hear more about their impressions of the place, but I enjoyed it.

Saturday we woke up and it seemed like any other Saturday, we had breakfast and sat around looking on the internet for things for the baby's room until around 10:30. We were trying to decide what to do for the day and Bill suggested that we go canoeing. There is a river about an hour from here called the King's River, we packed up our stuff and stopped off at the store and were there by 1:00. As we were about to walk out the door Bill suggested taking the dog. After the last trip we thought she would have liked it, so we took her with. I do have to say knowing that she is going to the groomers on Monday did help in the decision making. She got a hold of some fleas last week and has matted herself to pieces. Needless to say she will be getting a crew cut and a flea dip on Monday, I don't put up with fleas. The river was nice and relaxing and lasted about 6 hours. However, when Bill's friend, who went down it last weekend, talked about it, he did not say anything about the obstacle course that we would be traveling and the frequent low areas where Bill got out and had to push us down stream. Overall it was a lot of fun and Ruby had a great time. She was not too excited about swimming, but loved hanging over the edge of the boat to watch the water go by. And she loved rolling around and dragging her face on the rocks on the bank. At one point our white dog was completely covered in dirt, now to be light brown. The Kings River is just outside of Eureka Springs, AR, a very hippie town. The people who saw her on the river referred to her as a drowned rat with dreadlocks. Check it out and tell us what you think? We had a laugh out of it. Oh yeah, and there was a random river dog that followed us about 1/3 of the trip, Ruby didn't like him very much until we dunked her in the water for barking at him forever. That taught her!



Oh, PS. Here is the updated pregnancy pictures, 5 months pregnant. Hope everyone is doing well. We are started to get really excited and the reality is starting to hit us.