So one of our classes is Voyageurs which is a crazy good time. It's taught completely in character as a Frenchmen and the whole class gets characters to play in a voyageur canoe. I haven't taught it yet, but I will, and I desperately need to work on my French accent. So if you don't know, voyageurs were the Frenchmen that traveled all around the north in canoes for the fur trade. So in the class you get a character, dress up, everybody gets in a Montreal canoe (thirty something feet long), paddle across Wolf Lake to a campsite and party - cook, play games, start fires with flint, carve some wood, etc. So today the voyageur class took off...by the time class was over they realized it had got pretty darn windy and they didn't even want to attempt making it back to the other side.
So after lunch, we decided to dress up and rescue the canoe. There is no direct trail back from the campsite so it was quite the trek. In true voyageur fashion, we sang songs in French and made lame jokes. The lake was brutal and a little bit of white caps...but we powered through and saved the canoe. 
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