Nina is 28 today. I took her on a rafting trip on the Chama River, which we just returned from. I was originally intending to get us a more aggressive rafting trip; the Chama is seldom class 2 rapids punctuating what is otherwise a flatwater float trip. The Taos Box trips for this weekend were all sold out when I made my reservations. Nonetheless, I did manage to get ejected from the boat right at the beginning of the longest bit of rapids and did the whole stretch on my butt.

Our guide, it turns out, was very interested in caving and had been to a Pajarito Grotto meeting a few years back. He asked me, "Is that guy 'Mouser' still around up there?" So I guess we had already met, though I didn't recognize him.