Weekend Adventure

I just heard a sports announcer say that this was the last Sunday of summer. It's a bittersweet concept, as I have lamented in an earlier post. While fall doesn't come to Hattiesburg until about December (a sad fact, I've had to come to terms with), one outdoor activity that will suffer is swimming. So Saturday morning, some friends and I decided we would go to Red Bluff to hike and swim in the river. This is the bluff:

We climbed down and began our trek, collecting purple clay along the way, making tribal-esq markings on each others' arms and faces. As we got near the end of the trail, we discovered that Tropical Storm Lee had flooded the river way up the trail, covering our entry point, a rocky beach. Without the beach, there was no resting place to keep us from getting caught in the river's current. We tried to find a way around it, but after being mauled by mosquitoes and slipping around in stinky mud, there was no other place we could get in, so we turned back around.

We didn't let this unexpected change of plans dishearten our spirits, though! We still had a great time enjoying the outdoors and each others' company. We even roped a nice couple into taking group pictures of us.

It was a very good day, and it ended with some delicious frozen yogurt and a movie at the apartment, not to mention a free fireworks show across the street.

SDG