Chapter 5
After about two hours of paddling and drifting, and about an hour of complaints from Jeff about the cramped quarters of the canoe, they landed on a sandbar that jutted out from the wooded shore.
Here they ate a lunch of sandwiches and fruit. The boys, Allister and Jonathon, went down to the water and skipped rocks while the adults relaxed and chatted.
“So, how long have you guys been together?” Penny, the newlywed from Ontario, asked Nate and Morgan.
Nate looked at Morgan. “About three and a half years,” he said with a warm smile.
Morgan smiled back.
Joseph, the man from the UK, asked, “When are you going to get married, now that you lot can do it in the States?”
“Joseph!” his wife admonished, “That’s much too forward of you. It’s none of our business.” She looked at Nate and Morgan. “I do apologize. My husband can be so…”