Bear Paw = a part of the reason there is a Hannah

We just found out last night... Bear Paw Inn was devistated by a tornado this past summer. While thumbing through an issue of Paddler we found that our friend Brock's paddle company http://www.wavedogpaddles.com/ is becoming way successful! In the next few pages we read the place where we all basically spent the beginning years of our paddling was physically gone though completely alive in spirit. http://www.bearpawoutdoors.com/ Why do I post this on Hannah's blog you ask? Well I figured we can't be the absolute last to find out about this so those who read this and were part of our lives when there was Bear Paw may also find out about it. We basically lived there on weekends and it is where we fell in love... Awwwwwwww!
Spent the evening reliving some of our past in Wisconsin and it truly was part of the trigger to the adventure side of us. It's funny as I (Christina) lay in bed crying over this magazine article... I realized how many great memories we have. Lately we have been working on the restoration of ourselves and not looking in the rearview mirror or focusing on bad things in the past. I guess as I leave the bad stuff behind I have left the good stuff too. I have recently been inspired to go through the 3 rubbermaid bins full of pictures we have. And now I'm more motivated than ever.
Although kayak adventures have become few and far in between it is a part of us that will never go away. We are just in the slow season now with an amazing 2yr old daughter, but eventually she will grow up and we will have an abundance of time to ourselves again...

Those who have never lived where tornados occur probably don't realize the true devastation they can bring. Most of the time there is no warning and you hope that as you hear the sirens go off and run to the basement or get in the bathtub covered in pillows if you have no basement... you hope the alarm sounding the sighting of the funnel cloud is truly that as you pray that the funnel cloud never touches down. It's one of those times that most who don't pray... pray! Tornados are something I don't miss at all...



As Jeff and Angie (J's brother and sis-n-law) build their vacation home in WI and John's parents are planning to retire there we had actually been talking how it would be great to visit Bear Paw and show Hannah where it all began... (We are becoming cheesy parents aren't we?!?!) As they rebuild and hope to reopen in April of 08 we realize we will be able to take her to a new and improved Bear Paw. Actually sounds fitting as we are new and improved Daurer's...