I had listened to the weather radio before bed, so I knew that Thursday would be much cooler with a significant chance of rain. We finally rolled out of bed a little after 8am and layered up. It wasn’t raining yet, but it was definitely chilly. The predicted high was upper 40’s for Thursday. We got coffee and hot chocolate made and started in on breakfast. Brock, Sean and I enjoyed freeze-dried breakfast skillets and Amanda and Bianca shared biscuits and gravy—with some REALLY crunchy biscuits. We’ve found that there is always a learning curve to the freeze-dried meals, and this one particularly requires a bit more “skill”. The biscuits really need to be pushed to the bottom of the bag and mixed in well, it also probably needs a touch more water than indicated. Despite the crunchy biscuits, they both really enjoyed the flavor. We got dishes done, the warm water felt glorious on chilly hands, and Sean, Brock and I went fishing for a bit while Amanda and Bianca played cards on a towel on the ground. Brock caught another northern, and we were able to get a fire going and get the fish cooked up before the rain started around 1:30. We all put on rain gear and prepared for a rainy rest of the day. Thankfully, there were no major downpours, but with the cold weather, it made for kind of a blah afternoon. Brock had a genius idea to put rocks on top of the fire grate so we could keep our fire going in the rain, but otherwise we mostly hung out, fished from shore and tried to stay warm and somewhat dry. It rained lightly all day and finally stopped for a bit in the early evening. Sean and I took out the canoe to check out some of the other campsites that were near us. We were only able to find one that looked really overused, open and rough. Not one we’d like to stay at in the future. There was supposed to be another site in the same bay, but we couldn’t find it and the rain had started again, so we decided to head back to camp to warm up. We had more freeze-dried meals for dinner, cleaned up the dishes and brushed teeth so we could hang our bear bag. Bianca retired to the tent first, probably around 8:30, I followed around 9 because I was really chilly and damp from the rain. Sean, Amanda and Brock hung out for a bit longer and then headed for bed.