Our new canoe!

Back in early May, I started looking for people selling used canoes, as I've been wanting one since I was probably 14 years old. I happened to find a guy in Colorado Springs who was looking to trade his canoe for a high end mountain bike. Since I was getting a new mountain bike, I emailed the guy with pictures of my old mountain bike and he was really interested in doing the trade! When we went back to Colorado Springs the second weekend in May to pack up Matt's stuff so he could move here, we went to the canoe guys' house and he was more than willing to trade! So we scored a HUGE and in-really-excellent-shape Old Town canoe that didn't cost us a penny! :) We strapped the canoe to the top of a friends' truck that we were borrowing and trekked it back here to the mountains. We have been leaving it at Lake Irwin, but are hoping to move it tomorrow to Long Lake, which is just a couple of minutes down the road from us and is a quieter lake during the summer months. We have had numerous friends use the canoe already, and right after we got it, we took Lochlan out in it for an evening dinner canoe picnic. He was in heaven! Here are photos from that first night.