Katie (since Katie has the longest and hardest to spell last name she will officially be called Katie, and all the other will be surname only!), Karen, Kathy, Tex and I went down the Santiam today. Nothing major, the biggest were class III. 
This is right after that part. We could not stop laughing and doing re-enactments of Katie’s heroic rescue and Karen’s mute plea. We totally had to stop and bail, since Katie and I were in the middle up to our boobs in water by this time. I had such an awesome time and love these crew girlies so much! I’m sad to see Tex heading back to Texas {and I just have to interject that we call her that as a shortening of her last name, the living in Texas is a recent development and handy coincidence only}. Tex is going to email me some more pictures of the day, so check back. I’m surprised we still have our cameras after all that. Tomorrow I go sailing (I can’t get enough). Actually I’m taking out my boat! Yes I have a boat, a Hobie Cat catamaran. It was my dad’s and I love it. It has a rainbow sail people. I never take it out because I’m too small to by myself (you need ballast weight in case of flipage, which happens often). But I won’t give it all away now. Apparently the water is low at Detroit so my dad said it might be, "gnarly" let’s hope I survive.