People of the Big River Day 1

 

I arrived at Heritage University at 9 AM. As we were unloading the sleeping bags from Dr. Corbin Shuster’s car it started to rain lightly. We picked out our sleeping bags and beds that looked cozy. Dr. Black arrived around 10 AM with the RV. We loaded the coolers filled with food, camping gear, personal duffle bags, and lab equipment into the vans and RV. We took a break and Dr. Shuster showed us how to test water for bacteria. We set our Bio Paddle Agar Slide into an incubator. It took about 4 hours to get all gear packed and by this time the sun finally came out, temperature was 83 degrees. We departed from HU in a caravan with Dr. Black van in front, truck pulling the RV in the middle and the white van pulling up the rear. There was quite a bit of traffic all the way until we hit Reardan. We arrived at the camp site around 6 PM, unloaded and set up our tents. I personally had a bit of trouble assembling my tent because it looked like a sad Teepee, Agnes and Jaime helped it look more like a tent.  I immediately started getting eaten alive by mosquitos so we sprayed ourselves down. We met Warren Seyler, who was very nice guy. Warren was member of the Spokane Tribe. He told us stories from his Tribe. We ate hamburger, corn and chips for dinners which tasted really good. I went to bed after 10PM and that night we had lighting, thunder and rain.

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