Journal 5

I am on my way back from up north and man was it a great weekend. For starters, I finally was able to ride my brother's 4-wheeler. I hadn't been riding it up to now for two reasons. One, and this is kinda a big one, my brother didn't want me riding it, lol. And two, it has a manual transmission which I had no idea how to use until I finally learned how to drive a stick at my job this summer. Another great thing was that my cousin Kevin decided to come up for the weekend too, which is always a fun experience. Besides all of that, my family and I finally were able to do something we have been wanting to do since we got the place. We were finally able to go tubing down the river that runs on the back of our property. It didn't work out as well as we planned though, one the bugs were just atrocious and two the river was really shallow and cold this year so there were a number of occasions where we bottomed out and had to walk down the river until it got deeper again.