Saturday, August 8, 2009. It was a wet and miserable day. We were not at all sorry to spend it lounging around a motel room. I don't have specific memories of what we did, but we are really good at playing our favorite word game Quiddler, reading aloud, and finding somewhere to have a good dinner. It was Marie's birthday, so I'm sure I teased her a fair amount about being old.
After having hiked thousands of miles together and having braved pretty much every kind of weather in a tent (OK, not a tornado yet, but we did do the end of a hurricane), we don't feel we have to prove anything. (Yes there are two green Foresters there. Only one was mine.)
![Super 8 motel](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib5gHgzbDGEMb8V1a8CmUWsHMceye5I-RVjhiPus860TncoyFAwdIQ23hC4m5PCfB_qhgCwHl4ZyhLQw2TP-a0O9u45Cnp7d0gonyn4f9BXBnjytsUZZtrrdHUDh-fMjqnlNyU03PEr74s/s1600/09MSBI-Super8-02.jpg)
We drove around town a bit that afternoon and spotted the car for the next day's hike. It was a seriously non-activity day.
Caught a wet nuthatch looking for dinner.
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The funniest thing was the large inflatable loon that floats around the small lake.
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Want to get a better idea of its size? Hilarious.
![floating loon](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vKJkmMpK7rv7kROJTbXrAwK-OEPyB-6YOGQrTx9mZJHQsdPzDIkguNXjwg_loDvojMwk0G9DQIxZcxmMMbD4AWnOMK_wjHyDgh_z5Laz4QL4nkIVGIK6dBP3oJCV1s7U3ArR3IX9tR0T/s1600/09MSBI-FloatingLoon01.jpg)
But, we do only get one day off. Tomorrow we'll be back on the trail.
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3 comments:
First glance of that loon and I thought my eyes were playing tricks.
Wow thats one big loon.
LOVE the giant loon! someone has a great sense of humor.
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