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    <title>Eschew Obfuscation: Black Canyon Kayaking</title>
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      <title>Black Canyon Kayaking</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29281775@N00/1618037896"&gt;&lt;img width="200" border="2" align="left" src="http://static.flickr.com/2066/1618037896_727c77e24e_m.jpg" alt="Kayak - Scenic Overlook.jpg" style="padding: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

	&lt;p&gt;As we were flying to Las Vegas to go kayaking on the Colorado River, Suzanne and I were thinking about how many times we have taken a trip by ourselves without the kids. The answer was three times &amp;#8211; and every one of them was because J.R and Eileen invited us to go someplace, with the implicit understanding that the kids were not invited!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;While we love going places with our kids, we really appreciate that they invite us on these trips so that we get to spend some time with adults, to reconnect with each other and to have some fun. And this trip was definitely a great time!&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29281775@N00/1618037140" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img width="200" border="2" align="right" alt="Kayak - Paddling, Sue.jpg" src="http://static.flickr.com/2325/1618037140_8a6a50b83c_m.jpg" style="padding: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

	&lt;p&gt;After flying to Arizona, J.R. and Eileen picked us up at the Las Vegas airport and then we drove to Boulder City to spend the night. The next morning, we drove down to Willow Beach to pack the kayaks and launch. The trip was put on by Jen of &lt;a href="http://www.aqua-adventures.com/"&gt;Aqua Adventures&lt;/a&gt; and she did a great job. There were 13 of us total, and we enjoyed everyone&amp;#8217;s company.  (Later, I was informed that unlike power boaters, &lt;span class="caps"&gt;ALL&lt;/span&gt; kayakers are nice people. ;-) )&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <author>Max Dunn</author>
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