On to the River!
Rafting was so much fun. We found a plastic Flamingo lawn ornament at the Spam fest garage sale and attached it to Pam's boat as a fitting mast head. I volunteered to be lashed to the front of our raft to perform the same office and let me tell you, it was quite an experience. The really good pictures are still in the waterproof camera--I keep nagging her to take it in and get the damned photos but with her it's in one ear and out the other, so my rafting pictures are from up above. You still get an idea of what it was like --until I get my plastic paws on the real deal.We had friends of Flamingo's with us and we discovered that running this stretch of the river is more fun than a barrel of monkeys. The friends brought their mom, a flock of kids from 10 to 16, mom's little kayak and a giant raft complete with a cooler full of brew, sandwiches, cookies and pop. The kayaks are not wood. They are plastic,some are hard plastic and some blow up. People run the river on tubes, in rowboats, real kayaks and you name it. It's like Central Park on the water on a nice hot afternoon. It takes about four hours and the rafting companies drive you way up the river and dump off you and your kayaks and then they pick you up later at the take out point. The take out point is full of soggy people, boat trailers, wet towels and wet crabby kids.
On the river run we discovered if we yelled, "Nurse!" our partay boat would paddle over and meet us and administer thirst aid. Ma let Tman paddle and the boy was a natural so she just stayed in the back and sloshed around. They also gave us giant water cannons to shoot at each other. They proved quite helpful in sucking up water to bail out of the boat bottom. The rapids were amazing, fun and better than a roller coaster. Although I was under water for most of the ride I can't wait to do it again next summer.
posted by Rocket Davis @ 10:00 AM
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