We got up a little late but still got our Bible study in before John, Kim, and Alexa made it to camp today. After we greeted them, we headed into Vermillion Bay. Scott, Gene, Suzanne, Scott L, and I took a truckload of garbage to the dump and then met the rest of the crew at Bobby’s. Scott and I had a lot of drama buying gas. You had to pay inside before you got the gas. I thought they would be able to guide you a little so I told them I needed 10 gallons for our two gas cans. The guy helping me had no idea. He saw the fifty in my hand and said just pay $50 and we will refund what doesn’t come off. Weird. Any way I paid fifty and it took $42 to fill them. I took the receipt back in and he refunded me. Then I went back out where Scott and I tried to calculate how much gas we needed to fill the truck. We decided that we maybe needed 10 gallons so I converted that to litres and this time went in prepared - so I thought. They didn’t know how much 40 litres of gas would cost and it was silver grade for this round so we couldn’t just calculate from the first fill up. Anyway, I went in and paid for forty dollars which didn’t fill our tank. We just gave up and decided to try again later!
Gene treated us to burgers at Quakers Diner but first I had to run Jeane and Zane home so Zane could get his nap. After lunch Matt and I road with Janet to the Fort where most everyone got ice cream. After visiting there for awhile, Suzanne and I road with Janet to pick some blueberries. There weren’t very many but it was a memorable ride home.
When we got back we headed down to the water. I kayaked around Eagle Island and someone had just dumped entrails there. I saw 11 bald eagles with white heads and white tails. I tried to swing wide as not to alert them to my presence but they were flying back and forth. At one point, one of them was coming in to land on the rock and he was pretty much right over my head as he was descending. I’m not going to lie that it wasn’t a little intimidating! When I went around and made it back on the other side one of the eagles from Paradise was heading back with some entrails in his talons. He was close to going over my head when another eagle took off after him chasing him. I paddled away quickly. :) It was awesome though. As I headed back I could see that the kids were tubing and jetskiing. I saw a very fat loon, he kept his distance though. On the way back I picked up Gene who had dismounted from the tube and hauled him back on my kayak. I ended up bringing Nathan back and then later Scott. Jeane and Zane tubed and then I picked up Zane and kayaked him back.
We took our baths and Jeane dunked Zane under water. He was not too happy. I took advantage of it by grabbing a blanket and meeting him coming out of the water. He snuggled with me for about a half hour in the sun. It was really nice!
At 5:30pm we headed for North Shore Lodge for a rib dinner (a treat from Mom, Dad, and Gene). John, Kim, and Alexa came too. After dinner, Matt took a family photo of us. It turned out very nice. I rode with Jeane, Janet, and Zane to Vermillion to show them where the gas station was so they could fill up for their trip home.
When I got back Gene wanted to play hearts so he and I along with Mom and Janet played a game of Hearts to 100. It was only the second time I’ve ever played it and I kicked butt!! Haha I think Gene was surprised that I caught on so quickly. Either that or everyone decided to let me win but there was a pretty high point spread! AND I even shot for the moon once and took all of the hearts and the queen of spades.
When we got back I watched a show with Scott and didn’t get to sleep until almost 1am.
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