By: Jaimie and Lana—

This morning we woke up at 6 AM to go for our morning dip, eat breakfast, and get the boat ready.

While preparing breakfast, we had a couple of troubles—one being Peder getting a spice in his eye, so we had to get water off the boat to flush it out. Another trouble we had was not being able to find the gluten free oatmeal for Chrissy and Michael, but we found flax muffins instead.

We ate breakfast, packed the boat, and were on our way back to Saddlebag Island.

After rowing for 3 hours we anchored at Guemes Island to eat lunch at around 2:00 PM. For lunch: PB&J. We ate and rested for 1½ hours. Jake fell asleep after eating lunch.

Once we were ready to keep going on our voyage back home, Jake was still asleep, so, as a crew, we decided to let Jake sleep and he woke up after an hour of rowing.

While we were rowing, we encountered four foot wakes and everybody had a blast going over them. We rowed for another hour and we reached the shore of Saddlebag Island.

We then had a little snack and drank some water so we can have enough energy to unpack our gear and dinner. We were on the boat for 7½ hours and rowed for 6 hours.

Once we anchored, our captain told us that we did over 250 perfect power strokes. After unpacking all the gear, the chefs started to make dinner. For our last night all together we had burritos with beans, avocados, cheese, onion, tomatoes, sour cream and garlic.

Since it was our last night together we had s’mores for dessert.

To be able to get s’mores first we had a song war. We played in groups of five people. Group A had Lynn, Jaimie, Peder, Jack and Indeya. Group B had Lana, Sara, Quinn, Jake and Arielle. Group A won so they got to get s’mores first. We gathered around a fire pit and laughed while eating our s’mores. After cleaning up dessert, we went to bed as a crew for our last night together.