Oh boy

This was the email from the NPS Grand Canyon River office which greeted me this morning:

Dear XXXX BRIDGET XXXXXXXXX,

Thank you for submitting an application in the Grand Canyon National Park noncommercial river trip lottery. We are pleased to inform you that your lottery application was successful and we have scheduled a Small trip for you to launch from Lees Ferry on July 25, 2008.

To keep this trip, you must login to the lottery website at https://npspermits.us and pay your River Trip deposit within two weeks of the drawing date. Failure to pay the trip deposit by this date will result in the automatic forfeiture of your July 25, 2008 and its subsequent re-release through a follow-up lottery.

Once your deposit has been paid, nothing further will be due from you until 90 days before your launch date. By that time you will need to have completed the online Noncommercial River Trip Permit application and paid for your trip participants.

If you have any questions or need further assitance, please ask. We are happy to help. Congratulations on winning a trip!

Sincerely,
Steve Sullivan