Lazing down Lazy River.....

Cherie and Loran Elizabeth (my niece)

My parents and brother's family and my sis-in-law's parents, brother and some more friends all have Fifth Wheel Campers and go camping together alot. This last week they camped up at Vogel State Park and Jacob had gone with my parents. I went up on Thursday and we went tubing down the Lazy River. This is the only picture we have because our picture takers (Grandma's/Grandpa's) met us at the end and they barely got there as my niece and I were getting out (that's me out in the water--I had gone past the steps to get out) and my brother was a little way behind us. Jacob and Ross had floated ahead of us and had already been out awhile. When they went earlier in the week, it took them about 2 hours, so the ones that didn't go tubing timed it based on that, but since it had rained some we had more water and didn't have to walk as much as they did, so it went faster. We still hit some rocks in about 3-5 inches of water at some spots. The kids that were much lighter in weight floated along better in the shallow parts. On one of the big rocks I got stuck on, I kept bouncing my inner-tube thinking I'd bounce on past it--as I did on other rocks--but this time I flipped out onto the rocks--OUCH!! they hurt! Then in another part of the river a huge tree had fell down across the river from one bank to the other bank so we had to maneuver over it. The water was at least 3 ft. or so--and I stood up on the tree and put my inner-tube on the other side to get back on it and let me tell you--it's much easier to get back on it in ankle deep water---when I got on it, it flipped over and I got soaked completely! I had to go over to a sandbar to get back on it. There is definitely an art to it---that I had not quite mastered yet! It was fun--there were a few spots that the river was flowing pretty good and even a few small water falls--but for the most part it was slowly Lazing down the Lazy River!