Hot Potato

This is old news but too good to good not to blog. Joeja, Hilary and I went whitewater rafter recently and nearly as soon as we got on the river one of our raft mates said, "So, the river just runs in a circle, right? We just end up back where we started."

The guide, showing remarkable restraint, simply told her that no, a bus would be picking us up down the river. Unfazed, the woman insisted that the river must run in a circle because that's what the Boise River does (the Boise is the river that runs through town and a popular floating spot). Even worse, she had actually floated the Boise, which means she got on the river, floated for a couple hours, got out several miles away and STILL thought the river ran in a circle. The worst part? She has four children.