Chasing Life with the Gibsons: May 2020

Today is Nick's 24th Birthday!! The company he works for allows the employees to have their birthday off as a paid day. So today Nick didn't have to work.

He's been wanting to go to this place called potholes. It's about 45 mins away. We tried to go over the weekend but it was just too busy. So today we woke up early and went. We took luna but realized rather quickly that that was a bad idea. She did ok but I would have rather gone without dogs.

We didn't stay too long there. A little over an hour. It's hot and we've been so busy. Tonight we have nick's birthday with his mom and grandparents.

Anyways back to Potholes...

It was a really short hike to the first water crossing. When we got there, there was a girl in the water. She slipped as we were walking up and slid down. That water was really cold. We hiked on for about another 5 mins when we came to the waterfalls. I have a video on the GoPro once I'm able to get my editing software up and running. I love waterfalls. In Canada, there are 2 sets of falls that we go to each year and I love it when the water is down enough that you're able to go stand under them. The falls that we saw today, I was able to go sit on a ledge near them.

We were at the falls for about 30 mins before we decided to walk on. We walked for another 15 mins before Nick got a tick so we turned around and walked back. Which is fine cause I was getting hungry.

Overall it was a great trip and I can't wait to go back again.

I have actually lost track of how many weeks we have been in quarantine but the light at the tunnel keeps getting closer.

Nothing really exciting happened these last couple of weeks.

Today the Gym opened for the first time and I was there at 8:30! Let's make this a habit shall we? It felt so good to work out. I only did 30 mins but that's cause I knew we would be kayaking. I was also worried about overdoing it today. When you haven't been to the gym since February, You go back slowly!

For the last couple of months, I've been working with Luna to get her comfortable in the kayak. She doesn't like it and refused to get near it in the garage. But today I convinced Nick to go with me to a nearby lake and to test it out. Sometimes she's better once doing it. She did a lot better than I thought she would. She wouldn't lay down but she didn't tip us! She learned the "Boat Up" command and the "Stay in". She loved to jump in a swim but I would have preferred if she would have stayed in the kayak. She doesn't always listen to the command "Come" so I was worried that she would run off and bother other people. With Nick on the shore, she just ran to him.

After this morning with Luna, We went kayaking with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law. The trip that we did, normally takes 2-4 hours, took us 1 1/2 hours. That was also with us stopping twice to swim, cause it's 90 degrees in Indiana. The water was high and moving fast so that helped us. Overall it was a wonderful trip. Right after we got out, Nick informed us that he left the RAV's keys in the other car (Which was at the start.) So my sister-in-law called a friend to come to pick them up. Right after she made this phone call, It started raining! It only rained for 45 mins and it wasn't bad. Sister-in-law came back with her truck and the keys. We loaded up and came home. I was hoping that we could do another trip because of how fast it took us but we decided not to.

It was a great Memorial Day. Lots of fun. Different than last year. But really fun..

I'm hoping to be able to take Luna out more on the kayak so that she will relax and maybe go to Canada with us