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cho mei dong
Yup, I got the call today. I have to raise $4000 in sponsorship fees and I am off to China for the month of August with Junior Team Canada. Check out
www.gvconnects.com for more info.
So I will miss Kyla and everyone else but right now I am trying to convince Jeremy to visit me while I am in Ottawa for training, the first week of August. That will never happen.
Krista Experienced Paradise at 4:06 PM
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i figured...
well the big drunken episode at the BH is over a done with. Hahah I think it is what snag expected, what i figured, and what craig guessed. lol. Oh well, good times good times.
It has brought up some bad feelings for me though, not directed at Craig in any way, but mostly at myself and at australia.
Can you see the downward spiral tugging at my legs? I can feel it...ooh yup its coming. I hate the smell of doom on its way to get me. I have to come up with a plan to either kill it for good or figure out a way to at least shove it back into the closet.
This will not be a good summer.
Krista Experienced Paradise at 9:09 AM
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lots of drive but must be in neutral
Krista Experienced Paradise at 1:38 PM
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my insurance went down $900!!!!! YIPEEEE
and in other news:
I am pretty much finished the KyTastic Cape Breton Weekend. I just have to wait for the places to get back to me with our reservations. Gonna cost us $300 each for 3 nights and 3 days doing a WHOLE bunch of stuff. Here is our tentative (on Kyla's approval) agenda. (gas is most of the budget grrrrrrr)
Friday
Halifax out to the pogue
Halifax Stay with Jenni
Leave 4 Hour Drive to Baddeck
July 30th
Saturday
Baddeck Gaelic College
Baddecj Highland Village Baddeck Gathering Ceilidh
Bras d'Or Blue Mist Tavern
Baddeck Campsite
July 31st
Sunday
Cape North Whale Watching
Deep Sea fishing
Pleasant Bay Whale Interpretive Center
Cheticamp Little Pond Stables
cabot trail drive around national park
Cheticamp Campsite
August 1st
Monday
Margaree Forks Old Miller Trout Farm
Leave to Go Home -Arrive at approx 11pm
August 2nd
Krista Experienced Paradise at 10:57 AM
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hehe it was funny so i had to post it
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Krista Experienced Paradise at 1:03 PM
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humans did not evolve
read
Krista Experienced Paradise at 11:19 AM
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am now reading something
really interesting:
click here to read it also
Krista Experienced Paradise at 10:25 AM
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Again..
In another article by the same people below, they talk about evolution vs. creation and about fossils.
We often read about this or that "transitional" (in-between) form bridging the gap between one king of organism and another. It is important to remember that the transitional forms that have been found are only trasitional because they are declared to be so. We have no evidence that they are not simply another "kind" of plant or animal.
For instance, if someone who had never seen a bat were to look at a fossilized bat, they might easily declare that this was a transitional form between birds and mammals! But we know that bats are contemporary and highly specialized creatures, and are not transitional forms of any knig. The same thing happens with fossils. We make numberous assumptions anytime we see a fossil and then declare it to be, for example, "transitional" between birds and dinosaurs, or between fish and reptiles.
The reality is that a "transitional" form, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. People tend to see that they want to see, and the theory of evolution, after all, demads transitional forms. Thus, some discoveries are declared "transitionsl" and heralded loudly in the press. When a fossil's "transitions" status is retracted however, it is often done very quietly, with little or no press coverage. An excellent example of this is "lucy", which was heralded so loudly during the 1970's and 1980's as a key transition of human evolution and undeniable proff the humans had "evolved". During the 1990's though, many evolutionsists, including one of her discoverers, quietly began removing "Lucy" fromthe human evolutionary tree (See: Science, 1996, Vol 272, p 654 and National Geographic, 1996, March p96). Thus, all the hyperbole gives the impression that a great many transitional forms have been found. The truth is far different. (see: http://palaeo-electronica.org/2002_1/editor/icon.htm)
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Many illustrations of human "evolution" have shown the darker-skinned people as emerging from the ape-line first, and the lighter-skinned humans as being the actual final products of evolution. In line with this reasoning, evolution can be held responsible for many of the horrors of racist ideas that existed in the late nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries, and even until now.
Hitler also is known to have adopted evolutionary ideas to support genocide and the concept of the promotion of a superior (white) reace of men and women. The underlying evolutionary thinking becomes very clear in his book, Mien Kampf, where this evil ruler spoke of "lower human types." He criticized tha Jews for bringing "Negros into the Rhineland" with the aim of "running the white race by the necessarily resulting in bastardication." He spoke of "Monstrosities halfway between man and ape" and lamented the fact of Christians going to "Central Africa" to set up "Negro missions." ....this goes on and on
THink for a moment about UFO's. Some may believe that little green men are physically abducting poeple from the desert and transporting them elsewhere. If billions of dollars were being spent to promote this notion as verifiable science and most respected academicians were teaching it as truth, then it would not be surprising, given the dynamics of social peer pressure, that many people would adopt the UFO notion as true science. An irony exists, however. Even with the tremendous efforts of many academicians in promoting evolution and scorning the Bible, many Americans still are not persuaded of the evolutionary "presupposition". Perhaps this is because it requires people to ignore all their experience and observation, such as life only comes from life and design requires a designer. Thus, accepting evolutions claims may require too large a leap of faith for many people.
For this post I will end with some top reasons why evolution is wrong:
1. The Fossil Record...Evolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of "primitive" life forms to "more complex" systems we observe today. Yet, "since only a small percentage of the earth's surface obeys even a … portion of the geologic column…the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rock/life/time…over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance.1" "[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material. The deficiencies are real, they will never be filled."2 This supposed column is actually saturated with "polystrate fossils" (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame. "[T]o the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation." 3
2. Decay of Earth's Magnetic Field...Dr. Thomas Barnes, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso, has published the definitive work in this field.4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earth's magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate, demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1,400 years. In practical application its strength 20,000 years ago would approximate that of a magnetic star. Under those conditions many of the atoms necessary for life processes could not form. These data demonstrate that earth's entire history is young, within a few thousand of years.
3. The Global Flood...The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noah's day. Additionally, there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world. 5 M.E. Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent. 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earth's sedimentary layers..7 It is now possible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood.8
4. Population Statistics...World population growth rate in recent times is about 2% per year. Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number. Wars, disease, famine, etc. have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years. Starting with eight people, and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noah's day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people. However, application on an evolutionary time scale runs into major difficulties. Starting with one "couple" just 41,000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089. 9The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies.
5. Radio Halos...Physicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite. The half-life of this element is 0.000164 seconds! To record the existence of this element in such short time span, the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously.10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form.
6. Human Artifacts throughout the Geologic Column...Man-made artifacts - such as the hammer in Cretaceous rock, a human sandal print with trilobite in Cambrian rock, human footprints and a handprint in Cretaceous rock – point to the fact that all the supposed geologic periods actually occurred at the same time in the recent past.11
7. Helium Content in Earth's Atmosphere...Physicist Melvin Cook, Nobel Prize medalist found that helium-4 enters our atmosphere from solar wind and radioactive decay of uranium. At present rates our atmosphere would accumulate current helium-4 amounts in less than 10,000 years.12
8. Expansion of Space Fabric..Astronomical estimates of the distance to various galaxies gives conflicting data. 13The Biblical Record refers to the expansion of space by the Creator14. Astrophysicist Russell Humphries demonstrates that such space expansion would dilate time in distant space.15 This could explain a recent creation with great distances to the stars.
9. Design in Living Systems...Astronomical estimates of the distance to various galaxies gives conflicting data. 13The Biblical Record refers to the expansion of space by the Creator14. Astrophysicist Russell Humphries demonstrates that such space expansion would dilate time in distant space.15 This could explain a recent creation with great distances to the stars.
10. Design in the Human Brain...The human brain is the most complicated structure in the known universe.18 It contains over 100 billion cells, each with over 50,000 neuron connections to other brain cells.19 This structure receives over 100 million separate signals from the total human body every second. If we learned something new every second of our lives, it would take three million years to exhaust the capacity of the human brain. 20 In addition to conscious thought, people can actually reason, anticipate consequences, and devise plans – all without knowing they are doing so.21
1Woodmorappe, John, "The Essential Non-Existence of the Evolutionary Uniformitarian Geologic Column: A Quantitative Assessment," Creation Research Society Quarterly, vol. 18, no.1 (Terre Haute, Indiana, June 1981),pp. 46-71
2 Nilsson, N. Heribert, as quoted in Arthur C. Custance, The Earth Before Man, Part II, Doorway Papers, no. 20 (Ontario, Canada: Doorway Publications), p. 51
3Corner, E.J.H., Contemporary Botanical Thought, ed. A.M. MacLeod and L.S. Cobley (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961), p. 97
4Barnes, Thomas, ICR Technical Monograph #4, Origin and Destiny of the Earth's Magnetic Field (2nd edition, 1983)
5Blick, Edward, A Scientific Analysis of Genesis (Oklahoma City: Hearthstone, 1991) p. 103
6Clark, M.E. and Voss, H.D., "Fluid Mechanic Examination of the Tial Mechanism for Producing Mega-Sedimantary Layering" (Third International Conference on Creation, Pittsburg, July 1994)
7Ager, Derek, The Nature of the Stratigraphical Record (New York: John Wiley and Sons) p. 43 and p. 86
8West, John Anthony, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt (New York: Julian Press, 1987) pp. 13-14
9 See Morris, Henry, Scientific Creationism (El Cajon, CA: Master Books)
10Gentry, Robert, Creation's Tiny Mystery (Knoxville, Tenn.: Earth Science Assoc.,1988)
11 Baugh, Carl, Why Do Men Believe Evolution AGAINST ALL ODDS? (Oklahoma City: Hearthstone, 1999)
12Cook, Melvin, "Where is The Earth's Radiogenic Helium?" Nature, Vol. 179, p. 213
13Cowan, R., "Further Evidence of a Youthful Universe," Science News, Vol. 148, p. 166
14Psalm 104:2; Isaiah 40:22
15Humphries, Russell, Starlight and Time (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 1994)
16Denton, Michael, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Bethesda, Maryland: Adler & Adler, 1986) p. 263
17 Mastropaolo, Joseph, "Evolution Is Biologically Impossible," Impact # 317 (El Cajon, CA: Institute For Creation Research,1999) p. 4
18Restak, Richard, The Brain: The Last Frontier, 1979, p. 390
19The Brain, Our Universe Within, PBS Video
20Wonders of God's Creation, Moody Video Series
21Weiss, Joseph, "Unconscious Mental Functioning," Scientific American, March 1990, p. 103
Krista Experienced Paradise at 10:23 AM
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The Krista vs. Evolution Blog
http://www.creationresearch.org/
IN the January/February 2003 Issue of this organizations
newsletter:
They discuss how Evolution Only is the focus taught in schools. They give a good analogy of why there should be equal balance on all scientific data concerning creation vs. evolution. "When we go to the ball game we want the umpire behind the plate to just tell us whether the ball is in or out of the strike zone. We don't want him to favor one team or the other by ignoring relevant data or interpreting ovserved data so that it fits a 'desired' explanation."
"Methodological naturalisim is an assumption that natural laws and chance are adequate to account for all phenomena......Scientists like Mr. Rennie really don't ask the questions: Where do we come from?. That is because methodological naturalism provides the answer before the question is asked. We come solely from unguided and purposeless natural process called evolution. Methodological naturalism assumes that intelligent causes have not operated to produce natural phenomena, even in the face of an enormous volume of contradictory evidence."
Well... that just about sums up about what I think of evolution only science as well.
And this article repeats again, why bother playing the game "questioning evolution", when the ump always calls strike on the batting team!?! People who believe in evolution ONLY and choose to ignore the scientific data of other options they are just calling the game biased and are deathly afraid of the chance of losing a fairly called game.
This paragraph I love.....
"Evolution Only proponents cannot live with criticisms of evolution, because principle criticisms deal with subjects that Darwinists must avoid, such as: lack of explanation of the origin of life and biolofical complexity, the use of a naturalistic bias in violation of the scientific method and the dismal track record of Darwinian predictions."
In other words...Darwin had a long shot of a crazy out there theory. In fact there are journal entries of Darwins partner (yes he did have a partner) that tell of scientific evidence the partner found to ultimatly destroy Darwins theories. Darwin refused to accept it and went a little insane. Misteriously this journal has never really reached the public and his theories which contradict Darwins were not given any respect or weight in the balance of the creatin vs. evolution fight. Not long after Darwin published his theories in a science journal...the partner dissapeared...hmmmm......
"The only options available to local school boards are tectbooks which teach a very subtle Evolution Only "historical narrative" about where we come from. These books don't mention criticisms of evolution or the competing design hypothesis. The books simply "teach" that we are the product of an unguided natural process- that is the message."
In March of 2002 a school board decided to set the record straight and stuck stickers on the textbooks stating "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered."
My point exactly!
They also say that by not being unbiased in schools it is infact being biased in religion. Opressing religion in schools by only teaching evolution is infact not religiously neutral. They also mention how Gene Myers, a lead scientist on the Human Genome project was quoted as remarking, "What realy astounds me is the architecture of life...The system is extremely complex. It's like it was designed...There is a huge intelligence there."
In other words there is reason to believe that some intelligent being (superior or not) designed human life.
There is a good video being shown in schools now to help unlock those minds that were once closed to anything but evolution. The movie is "Unlocking the Mystery of LIfe and Icons of Evolution." I think we should try to rent it some time.
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IN this newsletter they also discuss the purpose of God, or what ever you choose to call him. They discuss this in relatin to the birds, animals, plants and earth. Now, if you are wanting to prove a point, the best way to go about it is by discrediting or having the same points as those who are making the opposite point. (I know that all sounds confusing)
Evolutionists use nature and its adaptation and creation of new things to prove the theory that god did not create life. That life created itself, or was a side effect of a huge space accident is hard for me to believe, given some reading I have done on creation science.
"One major example is that most geologists no longer account for vast depths of strats by calling for the slow rain of sediments across vast ages of time. They now asser, instead, that thousands of feet of regularlu alternating sediments were deposited quite rapidly in deep-water, flood-related events. Some of these processes are called "turbidity currents" and the vast deposits they have produced are known as turbidites....."
This paragraph discusses how scientists are now going back on what they once thought was millions of years of sediment drift. Because society does not keep a close ear to these journals (most have not even heard of creation science) the people of society continue to believe that past and outdated thoughts of the same scientists that now have changed their own theories.
There is a lot of info to look through, and I have a lot of time to do it while I am here (8-5) so I will post this for now, and continue in another post.
Krista Experienced Paradise at 9:07 AM
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Ooogly boogly eat your pie
Well I thought it was about time for an update. I have been dance dance revolutioning every day (well minus one day and i wont be playing tonight cause i am staying at kylas) since i got the game. It is so friggin fun. I can do all but 2 songs in the basic mode. They are the real crazy techno songs which have absolutley no beat that you can dance to. I will conquer them sooner or later.
So tonight is the BBQ and I will be bringing ribs and ceasar salad up to kyla's. Should be a grand old time. I also have coolers there that I left. She's get them chillin for me. I totally know I will be in bed by 10 because I have to be to work in the morning at 8. I am used to getting up at 6:30 at the camp and having to leave by 7:30. Ross will most likely be picking me up at 7:50 at kyla's. That means I might get to sleep an extra half an hour.
I feel like leaving now and going to kyla's....but I can't. OH well.
Tracadie is most likely not on for this weekend as the nissan has no wheels. Wheels should be reattached by next week sometime...hopefully.
In other news: I had a huge strange blister from raking the leaves at the town house. Well the skin didnt break and the top layer was real thick so I left it. But then it got really itchy and i went to scratch and i removed a bunch. Now all that spot is shiny...not wet or anything...just SHINY. My new skin looks like plastic! Way to go body...creating plastic replacement skin.
Krista Experienced Paradise at 3:42 PM
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I swear, these results WERE NOT RIGGED. honest to god.
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Krista Experienced Paradise at 8:03 AM
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friends
was fantastic. You could really notice coutrney's pregerrs though. It was kind of funny, cause she was supposed to be watching her children be born (the ones she couldnt concieve) meanwhile she is standing there being like 6 or 7 months real life pregnant.
She did have a really hard time concieving in real life too though.
I liked how Pehobe had a lot to do with things in it. And I liked that they told us her and Mike were going to have lots of babies. I am soooo glad that ross and rachel got together, but really the paris thing didnt make sense. She was taking emma with here and for the first week she was leaving her with her mom to bring to paris? Why wouldnt emma stay with ross for the week and then go to paris. I guess they didnt think of that.
Also I dunno what Joey's spinoff is going to be. All I can tell is that there will be Chick and Duck junior and I think Monica and Chandler will be making guest appearances.
Krista Experienced Paradise at 8:25 AM
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Lazy
I think it looks like I am a lazy student here at work. But really I only read blogs when there is no work to do. I am reading them because if I wasnt I would just be staring at a wall.
This job is sweet ass but I am used to the fast pace of cellular sales. Even last summer was faster then this.
Krista Experienced Paradise at 9:14 AM
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mook
Krista Experienced Paradise at 1:09 PM
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If you ever want to get me
I am in love with Escada fragrances. They come out with a different special limited edition one each year. The year I went to toronto I got Ibiza Hippy. I have only used about half of it. I LOOOOVE it. And in Halifax i got to smell Island Kiss and I wanted it so bad. I am looking online and you can buy tester bottles at discounts and there is an anniversary kit that has a 11190-1998 in miniature bottles.
If you ever wanna get me something and you can either buy the tester for $25 american or the real thing for like $80 CAD, then here are the ones that I want the most:
Floral Fruity
Island Kiss
Sex Graffiti
YEAH!
Krista Experienced Paradise at 1:48 PM
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approx line 5 of post 23
"oh and kelly is coming home!!! she can feed fork on thursday"
Kelly was going to school at Dal and I was going to school in Miramichi. I also had a fish named fork.
Kelly is now going to school in Miramichi and I am going to school in Halifax. I no longer have a fish, while Kelly now does.
WIEEEERRRD
Krista Experienced Paradise at 8:20 AM
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Gone Fishin'
Kyla and I went fishing yesterday for most of the day. It was a long adventure that was kind of stuck on the end of the saturday night one from the BH to the OH. The next morning we woke up sat around a bit at her house and then headed on up to the lodge, but first stopping to see if my grandma was still kickin. We were soon cruisin listen to some tunes in moms rav4 with the factory speakers wailin...*they are really good actually* meanwhile i was saying how much power it had compaired to the nissan and that it was hard to keep it under 100. Ross just got a ticket with it 2 weeks ago.
Sooo..drive drive drive talk talk talk ...oooo mr police man *check speedometer* ...uh oh....
So we got pulled over going 110 in an 80. I have one point left. And yes... i still have my one point even after this second 30 over ticket pull over. This time i didnt have to use graduation and the fact that dad would kill me to get out of it. This time i just told him that i never drive that truck and that it's touchy as hell and i didnt notice. Also i told him i usually drive a car that you have to press the gas to the floor to get it to go 50. He was nice. He said that he really should give me a very large fine but that he was just going to write up a warning. Yupeeeee..
So then I was like whatever, and we continued on to the lodge. We get there and mom asked us if my fluke or telepathy we brought her the chips she needed for the tuna melts at lunch. Un no. So we drive back out to the irving and finally come back to start fishing. But not before a grape pop... and a bathroom break.. and i had to change...and brush my teeth..and find some shoes.
Then eventually we went around looking for a shovel and something to put worms in. I found the shovel but we only had a box for the worms. We started out digging in one spot and there was one huge worm. Then we moved to others, mostly finding nothing. Buggers. I dug up the whole damn yard. I dug by the lodge. I dug by the guest house, I dug by the well and found a clay cafe in there. Then we went out to the field hoping for better luck. We dug by the log pile and we dug in the middle of nothing. Notta. We got like 8 worms. We decided we wanted to get er goin and forget getting more worms.
Since we weren't about to pay the lisence fee of $15 each, we were quickly going to become outlaws. No one wanted to be an accomplice to this as most of the people at the lodge that day were sworn in as level one or higher guides and it was their duty to hold up the laws of fishing.. or some stupid shit.
I figure I am native to my own lodge, so it was legal for me to fish. And kyla...well she just bleaches in the sun but shes as dark and the rest of us.
ANYways we couldnt get someone to drop us off at the point and we had to walk out with our spinning rods through a bunch of row and bramble. It was muddy and slippery as heck and there were trees and twigs EVERYWHERE. With a few slips and some funny entanglements we finally made it to the point. It's only like 25 meters from the lodge but it took us at least 30 minutes to get there. We got there and with my first cast showing kyla how the reels worked, I got a trout.
Now we know that it was a trout but at the time I didnt know what it was and whether it was worth keeping. We yelled back to mom on shore and I didnt really get much help there so I yanked er off and threw er back.
During the whole day we caught maybe 12 fish in total. We caught a bunch of trout maybe only 3 that were worth keeping, a pirch (which i didnt know what it was until i grabbed a hold of it) and 3 salmon par which are really small but fight and feel on the line as if they are huge trout. Funny little things.
Anyways we were out there awhile and we ran out of worms and screwed our reels up a bunch and untangled them again. We walked back in and left our rods out on the point, dug some more worms and found lots and then went back with a motor boat sans motor but with paddles and picked up the rods and went around fishing other little spots. We found a lot of nothing, screwed our rods up a whole bunch and ended up back almost to where we started by the time we got any more bites. I might have caught one or two there and kyla got some there but it was getting late and i think the tide was moving out or the fish were full or something because by the end of er only the chubs were munchin on our worms.
We paddled back to the lodge and had a beer each and then struck er for kyla's door yard.
And so ended another kytastic adventure.
Krista Experienced Paradise at 9:04 AM
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