Saturday, June 27, 2009

Rafting fun




Whitewater rafting is AWESOME! I was kind of sad when it was over. The river was packed that day too so the guide couldn't do as much as he could if it wasn't so packed but we had a lot of fun. I even got out of the raft and into the water when he said we could go in! The water was cool and it felt so wonderful. We are talking about going back to do the full river trip. We had one person go into the water when she wasn't planning to but everyone else stayed in except when they wanted to be out of the raft. There were two opportunities to get out. The first one was in calm water to just swim/float around and the second was at a rapid where you could climb on this big rock and jump into the rapid and it would take you under and spit you back out. The current would carry you a ways down from the raft if you couldn't swim pretty strong to get out of it.

In the pictures Carlos is 'riding the bull' as they call it sitting up front in the raft. There were two opportunities to do that. Maybe one day I will try that???

I'm ready for the next trip! It was a blast!

3 comments:

Just My Life said...

Looks like fun!

Mrs. Laura Aquila, the teacher said...

Looks like you had a great time!!! Where did you do this? Locally?

Michelle said...

It was a lot of fun! We went rafting on the ocoee in Ducktown Tennessee. Took us about 3 hours to get there I think. It says it is about 1.5 hours north of chattanooga.