Tigger On Canoeing

Remember Tigger? She's our almost-five-year-old granddaughter who is the closest thing to Yogi Bera that this family has. She says thing in the most serious voice that absolutely make you want to burst out laughing but you don't because you know it will hurt her feelings.

She's the one who wants to have a pet manatee in a home aquarium when she grows up. Oh, that Tigger, you say.

Yes, that Tigger. She was in our canoe during the first half of the trip yesterday.

Before they bussed us up the river to the drop-off point, the owners gave us an informative talk about the conditions on the river, the things to avoid, and the bridges we would pass under that we could use as landmarks. Evidently, all Tigger heard was that we would exit the river immediately after we passed under a big bridge because as soon as we floated under the first one we encountered she let out a joyous shout of "We're almost finished!!!"

We'd been in the water about 5 minutes.

When we told her we had several hours left until we completed our course she breathed a worried "Oh, dear!"

I'm not sure if this exchange had anything to do with the hasty exit her mommy and she made up the riverbank toward the bathroom at the end of the trip. She went before the trip began. I KNOW she did. But you know how running water seems to effect women. The rest of us were just a bit less obvious.