Every year my husband puts together a guys hike and they take an overnight hiking trip into the woods.\u00a0 Finally it’s my turn.\u00a0 We have been talking a long time about going on a camping trip just us girls and we have finally made it happen.\u00a0 We went up to coffee pot campground and kayaked part of the Henry’s fork river.\u00a0 This was my first time kayaking.\u00a0 As you can see I’m the only one wearing a life jacket.\u00a0 Most of these women have been down this stretch of the river and swore I wasn’t going to need one.\u00a0 I’m a little nervous around rivers especially since Corey joined the local search and rescue team.\u00a0 There have been too many stories of people drowning and their life jackets were on the boat but not on them.\u00a0 Well it turns out that most of the river is very shallow.\u00a0 We even had to walk our boats in some areas.\u00a0 It took us about 2 hours to get down the river.\u00a0 The best part is we could kayak right up to our camp site.\u00a0 The next day after breakfast we went on a hike.\u00a0 We hiked farther down the river where there were class 4 rapids.\u00a0 Not something I’m going to tackle any time soon.\u00a0 There were lots of huckleberries along the way.\u00a0 Andrea was always hanging back to pick a handful at a time.\u00a0 When we got back to camp we packed up and squeezed one more trip down the river.\u00a0 This time I did it without a life jacket!\u00a0 We had a great trip and I couldn’t think of a better butch of friends to experience this with.\u00a0 Thanks guys I had a great time.\u00a0 We need to start planning for next year.<\/p>\n
![\"Setting](\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P8060954.jpg\")
<\/a>Setting up camp<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>View from our camp<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Taking a short break before hitting the water.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Getting ready to get in.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>On the water<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Walking our kayaks through the shallows.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Melanie<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Andrea chillin with her peanuts<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>View from Debbie’s Kayak (photographer of the water venture)<\/p><\/div>\n