[Dominique]

Am I posting to myself.............. That's ok if I am. I often speak to myself. I'm used to it. I talk to the wall, and the hand, blah blah blah.

This mornings' rivers excursion for sunrise was with out incident. It was 54 degrees. Warmer than yesterday. Some of the *newbies* were not dressed right, but you learn as you go. We had a tandum father and teenage daughter. Dad was pretty *hip* and you could see they had a nice relationship. 17 people showed. That was perfect. More than 20 on a level one (first trip) can be a handful. Two guides to a trip.

I'm going to practice knee paddaling this afternoon. I bought press and stick knee pads over the winter, its for rougher water. The rivers were calm this morning, perfect for level one and it will also be perfect for trying to learn the strokes for knee paddaling. Todays high is 82 and straight sun. I hope I don't fall in, that river water was mighty cool this morning.


Then tonight...more yak time under the stars with fireworks. The coast guard
keeps us in one relatively small area (and in the no wake zone) because everybody who has anything that floats and resembles a boat, is on the three rivers for the fireworks. They call it *skyblast*. Fireworks is a very popular thing in this city. People do lots of outside activities with our beautiful skyline, three rivers, parks and fireworks.

Yesterday was Christmas eve, today is Christmas. (to me)