Hi Friends!

Well, it’s back to the ol’ grind this week.  I had a small case of the Sunday blues that night, sad that our wonderful week was already over.  But I will say it ended with a bang!  Our rafting trip was a BLAST!  I don’t have any photos of us personally because I wasn’t about to take my camera along.

There were some very calm float-along times throughout, mixed in with some high-adrenaline moments of pure “hairy”.  My friend Jeff said I broke into a couple sessions of “Panic Paddling”!  I agree!  This was my third time whitewater rafting in Colorado and I think this trip had more excitement (aka FEAR) than my previous trips.

By luck of the draw we were in a boat that had a fairly seasoned guide while some of the other boats in our group got a few guides who were in their first season on the job.  Which translates into all of us staying INSIDE the boat! (woot woot!)

Some of other rafters weren’t so lucky.  Here are some examples of scenes we saw:

At one point while we were waiting for the 6 boats behind us to catch up, we saw a paddle float by.  Then another.  And another.  Four paddles total floated by!  We were all wondering what the heck happened upstream.  After a good long wait even our guides determined that they better leave us there and hike back up to find out if everything was OK.  Luckily at that point the rafts started coming along again – apparently there’d been a flip or two.  Later we watched as a few boats flipped, “dumptrucked” and “wrapped” all in a row.  On the one where the boat was wrapped (when the raft gets stuck against a big rock and the water flow molds the raft around it) they ultimately had to throw two safety lines to shore and get everyone off the boat except the guide so that they could get the raft to move off the rock.

Right toward the end we had one nasty rapid that was really rushing and we got stuck pretty good.  At that time MSP and I both were thinking “Well, guess it’s our turn to get dumped out!”  I was a little scared at that point because looking at the rapids there, I knew it’d be a scary “swim” through them to get to shore.  But our guide was awesome, got us unstuck and we made it!

Phew!

I haven’t had a day of adrenaline like that in a while.  It was awesome!

We hit up a great mexican restaurant after that to refuel and then once home, it was COUCH TIME!  :)

Sunday we caught up on laundry, grocery shopping and general household “chores”.   How was your weekend?  Did it contain any adrenaline?

- Shari B. =)

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