I wake up about 8.30 and we have breakfast with the whole
group. At ten o clock is the official opening, we are welcomed by our German friends. Every year we have a
meeting like this...next year, it will be the Dutch who make the program, and be host..
Dave is doing very well
And so it is time to get into our boats... this first trip starts at our camping place, and will be about 13 kilometers
long. The first weir is a dangerous one, and only five of our group (including me) are allowed to take it.. I will be
the last one... Bernard and Miko go first, they do well... than comes Gertrud, an older very experienced lady, and
she has to swim... Oops...
And this too... ;-)
Than Regina leaves off after her.... and also has to swim.... HHMmm.... it has been long since I have done a thing like this, and I am not really comfortable
anymore...:-) But I take off, and just try to keep the middle.. and just to keep on paddling... and Yes!! I still can
do it!! I come trough with just my boat getting wet...:-) I have missed this.... Dave is doing fine, though he
seems to meet every tree in the river.... I know this feeling... the first time in a boat like this...
The water is so beautiful here...
it turns every
where, but not the way you want it... But he really seems to enjoy himself... Six kilometers later, his fun is getting
less...My mum is kayaking a double boat with my dad, and getting tired too... We leave mum and Dave at a bridge, to pick
them up later, and I hop in the double, to kayak the rest with daddy...
It is fun being with him in a boat again...
we laugh, we sing... and it is so easy to make tempo..we have to slow down...
When we arrive in Lippstad, the end of our trip, we put the boats on the cars we brought here earlier, and ride to
the campsite again.. time for my diary... and of course for my book... I found Harry Potter part
III at my parent's house... Great!! Mum makes dinner, and again we sit outside and have lots of fun... I go to bed as a happy girl...:-)
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