I decided to take Friday off, since Danielle was moving in on Thursday and I wanted to help her. She had a few friends help her move the bulk of her stuff earlier that day in the 101° heat so, I figured it was the least that I could do. She ended up taking a second trip that same day to get a few more things and pick up her cats, Dante and Randall. I moved boxes into the house, while Danielle carried a makeshift cat carrier (taped up cardboard box with air holes in it) up to the third floor. When she came back down, she said that Dante had somehow escaped and he was no where to be seen. It wasn't until the next morning that she found Dante, nervously meowing on the stairs leading up to her apartment.

That afternoon, Danielle, Matt, Bill and Frank showed up at my house, followed by Dean. They had come down for a toobin' expedition on Saturday. The plan was to leave my place by 8:45 so, Jamie, Cory, Jared, and Mariah showed up at 8:00. We all packed the coolers with way too much beer and headed out, just after the prescribed time.

We met up with Amy and Kelly on the river, enjoying the cold water and the hot sun. Beers were rapidly distributed and the first hour flew by as we rounded the "horseshoe loop". On the second dam, Danielle saved Bill's head from hitting a rock while simultaneously flipping him over. Bill got pretty scraped up on the rocks and lost the ziplock full of IDs and cigars that he had hanging around his neck. When he came up out of the water, his glasses were missing. This was the same fate of his previous set of glasses many years before. The ziplock was recovered rather quickly, so it wasn't a total loss. I guess what the lady at the toob' rental place said was true. "Don't take anything onto the river that you can't live without".

After the third hour of toobin', the sun went behind the clouds and a few drops of rain fell from the sky. Then, just before the 4 hour exit (4th crossing) the sky opened up and the rain really began to fall. Since we didn't have the sun to balance out the frigid water below our toobs' everyone decided to get out and warm up a bit on the concrete. When the rain didn't stop, we got back on truck and headed back home (with too much beer).

The next day we went to Conan's Pizza for lunch. After that the Dallas crew went home and Danielle went back to her apartment to unpack a little more. I spent the afternoon watching TV and planting a water hose hanger next to the spigot in the front yard. I started on the second one but, ended up running out of concrete on the first.

Around 7 Cory, Jared and I met up with Mariah and her friend Casey for dinner at Hula hut. We waited for a table for an hour and a half in the bar, eating chips and drinking beer. By the time the table was ready, none of us were really that hungry. We went to Mozart's afterwards and had a few caffeinated drinks and looked at the lake. What an amazing weekend!