Just around the river bend!

We left Sainte Foy after a week and a half of chilling out. We headed 2 hours east to Souillac. The drive was great. The countryside of France is so charming. We drove in the evening and the little towns were lit up and looked gorgeous right along the Dordogne River. We drove to Souillac to begin our canoeing journey down the River. We arrived at night and couldn't find anywhere to check in to the campsite so we just set up camp anyway because we are rebels. :) It was super hard setting up a tent at night. Dislike. It was like spending lots of time building a wabbly home I didn't even want to sleep in. I do like saving money though so I was a bit torn. Anyway, it was fine of course. 

We woke up the next morning pumped to go conoeing...RAIN. It was rainy and cloudy but we were out there so we thought we would do it for one day instead of two because the rain was set to continue the next day. After a while of discussing we decided why not risk it and go for two days. For some reason this completely discusted the woman who we were renting the canoe from. Nathan said two days instead of one and she sighed and looked upset. We thought about saying, “No no, I think you misheard us, we didn't say we are going to kidnap your children and sell them as slaves... We said we just want to rent a canoe for two days!” Haha! We laughed about that joke all day. Good times. We took a bus to Meyronne and canoed all the way back down to Souillac. It took us about 4 hours. It was B-E-A-utiful. There were really neat cliffs and castles along the river.

We made it back to Souilliac and the canoe company has a waterpark and since we rented canoes we got into the park for freeeeee! Because it was cloudy we also ended up being the only ones there. One section of the park had inflatables and we jumped on them. Then we went to conquer the waterslides that were pouring ice water down them. It was really fun and Nathan managed to keep his body from freezing long enough to go on the slides a couple of times. We recored lots of videos of us at this park. It was cool to be the only ones there.

We woke up the next morning to lots of rain. We debated skipping out on canoeing but that's not our style. We canoed from Souillac to Carlux. The woman told us that our stop on the river was just before the 3^rd bridge. The trip was supposed to take 3 hours and we arrived at the 3^rd bridge after an hour and a half. There was also no campsite just before the bridge so we just figured we would carry on. We also came to many forks along the river. I was pretty convinced that all hope was lost along with us. On the bright side, the sun came out for the rest of the journey. After some time we stopped to munch on some apples. (To see Nath accomplish an amazing feat, see video below) During our break we relaized that our bus would be waiting for us at the campsite in 1 hour. Seeing as how we didn't know where on the river we were we paniced and hurried further down it. We saw lots of houses and became sure that a bridge was just around the bend. It wasn't. It was the bend after that one that had our campsite. Hooray! Overall it was another good day, minus the slight anxiety of possibly being lost. 

 

We made it back safe, sound, and hungry. We got a very nutritional dinner from the super market. Pie and cake. In our defense the store was closing and we had to make a quick decision. We enjoyed this food while watching scubs on the free wifi the campsite had. That night we both slept really bad. It was our 3^rd night in the tent and our bodies were already aching from the canoeing. It is time for a hotel again :)

We are now heading to Marseille, France. I'm thinking we should hit the beach :) Inabit!