Private Property: Who Knew

I was back from girl's camp. I was ready for an adventure. Natalie, Madi, Jennie, Thomas, Will, and I decided we would go river raft down a small river. We didn't know if it was okay, so we did anyway. We parked in the Discover Bank parking lot. Stupid, I know. It was closest to the river though, so we just did it anyway. We then blew up our raft. In the distance, we could see what looked like a work party going on. It didn't phase us. We hid our bags and such in the bushes, then jumped in the water. One paddle was short and caused us to be slow. As we paddled across the pond in our tightly packed raft, I splashed everyone to stir up the moment. Later, we found out we were in canal water; luckily we hadn't swam in it. We finally reached the other side where the river began. We were just barely out of the pond and into the river part, when we saw a cop. We all panicked like children as he waved his hand and said "come over here!" We paddled over, whispering to each other on the way, saying saying things along the line of "we aren't eighteen, so we can't possibly get in too much trouble" and, Madi - "I'm seventeen!" and, Me - "Yeah but you're not eighteen" and, Madi - "oh" and, "Let's just say we didn't know, cause we really didn't" and "I'm so scared!!" We reached the side where he was standing. He asked us where we had taken off and we all pointed "over there!" He was like "Could you be a little more specific?" We said "right by that bench!" "You do know this is private property? Right?" he replied. We were like "no, we didn't know that." Then he said "I don't care that you guys are in there, just be safe. Do you have life jackets?" We were like "no". Thomas said "But we are all really good swimmers" and Natalie was like "We have these!" as she held up the small blowup pillows. He rolled his eyes and said "If anyone asks, you took off at the golf course. There are paramedics over there if anything happens." We then paddled on to find a bridge to go under. It was small and had cobwebs hanging from the ceiling. As we went under, screaming of course, Thomas scraped them off with the paddle. Madi supposedly had a spider right by her face. (I didn't really believe it.) hahah. Then we paddled past these two men fishing. They were talking to us about fishing. Then, Natalie was like "when you catch some fish, you can bring it to us." He said "It's been weeks since I've ran on water!" He was hilarious. We decided to get out of the raft after that. We couldn't go back through to the private property, so we got out there. Madi, Natalie, and I walked back (all the way around the freaking building) to get the car and stuff in the bushes. We had no shoes on and our feet were scorching hot. We walked FOREVER, and when we finally got there.. we couldn't find everyone's stuff. We looked in all the weeds and finally found Jennie and Will's stuff. It was in these sting-your-skin weeds. Madi and I went through screeching. Then we dropped the stuff and I'm not going to say what happens next. It's obvious for some. We got the car. That adventure was fun, but also over. What a day!