The name of the game today was waiting. This morning it was too cold...well at least that's what we told ourselves, so we waited to get up. But legitimately we did need a break after the stupid windy day yesterday. We felt like having a nice filling breakfast so we waited a bit more to have biscuits! We finally got on the water at 1040am and we're feeling good. The Miles passed quickly and we took a nice hour long break for lunch. There would have been no waiting at lunch but Reggie was whining in the way he does when he has to poop so we walked back and forth on shore waiting for him to go...which he didn't. Again we started paddling and the miles seemed to fall away faster that the leaves from the trees. Then we hit Lock and Dam 16. When I radioed them what I heard in response was not what I had hoped for. And so the waiting began again. He told us it would be another two hours because of a two section barge locking through. After Checking out the portage route (looked to be about half mile or so but hard to tell) we decided to wait some more. While we waited we charged my phone l, laughed a little and Amanda made use of my lap as a pillow and got comfortable ( I was sitting on a small tow barge thingy in the auxiliary lock which put my knees and head hight). After we finally locked through we decided that we both felt good and this would be a good chance to do our first night paddle. As we took off the speed of the current combined with paddling propelled us and a rate we have not yet experienced. It was exhilarating. We paddled into the darkness for about an hour before finding a suitable campsite which we named Night Paddle beach. By the time we stopped we had covered 31 miles on the day...well half day.
Also, it was fun to paddle past Muscatine where our good friends Amy and Jimmy were from.
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