rabbits and rainbows and cows and dinosaurs

There's a rabbit in the way when we pull into the campsite, and another rabbit. They seem more comfortable around humans than most people are.

The family across the path gives us a can opener so we can cook beans on an open fire, because our borrowed cook stove is missing the burner, and we don't want cold beans. The beans are smoky, and the clouds are saturated. It doesn't rain at first, but it starts drizzling when we're sitting on sandstone by the lake and watching the sky deepen to an orange that's rich but still light, like cream soda, which we probably could have gotten at the Rabbit Ear Cafe if we had stopped on our way through Clayton. We didn't stop though, but kept driving and dodging the large lightning strikes that came down close to the car. A little too close. But not close enough to do any harm, because we're safely at the campsite, watching the orange cream sunset. A few more flashes light up. There's a rainbow. It's perfect.

This morning, we have Love's coffee and biscuits, and a two-pounder bag of pretzels. We've learned that Betty likes torches but not lamps, and Abbey does her best driving with Chance the Rapper. She sings, and I stare out the window and wish that I were swimming in Canyon Lake again. We jumped in before driving off, and we didn't even look at the dinosaur tracks, but we swam, and that was more than enough.

Why do we jump off high rocky ledges into lakes we don't know the depths of? Abbey saw a few guys jump from the rock the day before, and it was probably like 25 or 30 feet above the water. She saw them jump, from either this rock or the rock over there, and they were ok, so it's totally fine, right? To just jump? She asked, while standing up there, feet on the ground but face leaning over the edge, looking down. Wondering. Hoping it's ok to jump. We decided it might not be, so we didn't. Well we did, but only after Bella swam over and made sure she couldn't touch the bottom. It was deep, so we jumped. And we made it back to the top.