Day 4 
The night
has been good. Even with all that rest, all my muscles remind me that they are
there. I thought that with the nice treat that I offered them yesterday they
would be nice today…. No, they wanted to be selfish. The breakfast was
good, it's Saturday but we had our eggs benedict. We then had our yoga lesson.
This is actually mainly stretch and it seems necessary in view of our physical
state. After these painful movements, Polly did a very interesting speech on
the mind and the physic. This is true, mind represents at least 50% of the performances
on the water. With all these good advices in mind, we took our boats and headed
down stream. Today we went through 9.5 miles and 2 major rapids.
We had some nice wave trains, huge ones. We arrived at camp after going through the hair dryer. The wind started to blow and as we are reaching temperatures close to 100F and 0% of humidity… this is like a huge hair dryer that blows in your face. At that camp nobody set his or her tents because of the wind. A couple of people are playing Frisbee when others surf endlessly that nice wave which is right in front of the camp.
Ha, what I forget today is that we saw a bear. Yes, you didn't dream. We are in the bear country and Shawn spotted one in the woods, about 50 yards from us. We managed to see it for about 10 seconds before he disappeared. It was awesome.
At camp we enforced the tradition of booties: Any person (mostly instructors) who swam during the day has to drink an entire beer from their kayaking booty. As everybody played on that wave in front of the camp and tried different boats including the inflatable ducky, there were a lot of swims. Even Polly had to drink the entire beer from her booty… yeark.
As the wind was blowing hard and extremely warm, we decided not to put our tent. Therefore we will sleep under the stars. Dinner has been excellent and the pork was really good. During the day Barbara fell from the raft and hurt her knee getting back into it. She is in pain but wants to wait until tomorrow to take a decision.