Canoe Carnival

After the tornado, we bandaged up our fish the best we could...

And we took all of the pieces of the float and put them together

We toasted another year of good fun and good friends, and our paddlers set off down the lake...

Canoe Carnival was a different experience this year, but it was probably the most fun I've had since I started. We got to be creative this year....our "Under the Sea" theme was changed to "Under the Tree", we put up some power poles with drooping lines and a smoking transformer...you can see all the tape along the bottom of the canoes, where they were bashed into the dock and the plastic covering them ripped...we were lucky we didn't sink during the storm! We knew we had first place in our division locked up...since we were the only entry! There were problems this year on the lake and over half the floats were disqualified because they had to be towed. We made it around on our own power, but those in charge have decided to hold off giving awards because it just "didn't seem fair" that so many were disqualified, so they're going to do an investigation into it. Seems to me that the rules are the rules...if you're towed, you're out. I'll be curious to see what happens and if we ever get our first place award! After all, we followed the rules...