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Thursday, July 17, 2008, Kampark Campground, Blanding, Utah
Today was our much appreciated rest day, which everyone was looking forward to. I got up first and walked across the street to Alco Hardware store to buy an extra large tarp to cover the tent when it rained [the only other time it lightly rained, some water seeped in and formed puddles and wetted the sleeping bags]. I also bought some extra tent stakes and some fishing tackle to catch pike, the main fish at Recapture Reservoir, only 3 miles away. When I got back the others had gotten up and needed some groceries and extra boxes for storage, so Becky, Willie, Sarah, and I went. Then Becky went running [She’s been running every other day religiously, regardless of how tired she is from the day’s ride] while the rest of us finally cleaned out the van and organized our stuff. Later we went to the library where I updated the blog. In the early evening, we ate more hot dogs (We’ve been eating a lot of them lately) and it began to rain on us. Thunderstorms form so quickly in this part of the country. One minute the sun’s like an oven, the next minute, big black clouds form and dump buckets of rain, cooling everything off. Then it clears up. Not so bad I guess. At about dusk, Willie, Paul, Vicky, John, Sarah, and I went fishing for about an hour at the lake. No luck; first time we’ve been skunked so far. When we got back, it was dark, so we had our Bible time and went to bed, all but Adriana and Becky, who stayed up till probably after midnight writing in their journals.