RAFTING!!!!

WOW!!! Thats all i have to say about white water rafting! I went for my first rafting trip ever this weekend and it was a blast! The ride up to shotgun eddies on the other hand was not my cup of coffee! 4AM and ME do NOT mix well at all. Expecially when i have 5 girls staying overnight at my house and staying up till 12:32AM the morning we need to be up at 4! We didnt sleep at all the whole 5 hour ride over to the rafting place! Once we got to shotgun eddies we waited and ate lunch got in line and sat for a bit. We loaded the bus to go to where we where rafting down the river. They told us the trip down the river would take 6hours we would go through about 3 sets of rapids and down 2 water falls! Well me being who i am i was scared about the whole waterfall thing cause i have a fear of falling from hights! Well, to make it more interesting we where all in pairs in the rafts so one of the leaders decited it would be fun to flip other peoples rafts while we where on the river! It was fun to watch and be a part of. Well after a bit me and the girl in my raft decited to switch rafts so we would get the chance to connect with the others in the group!

After we had done that our Youth Pastor had asked us who had not been flipped over yet so 2 of us raised our hands! well it was now unfair cause we where in with girls who had already been flipped! We thought we where in the clear! Until we hit a sandbar area and he charged right at my raft running like he was going to flip my raft so i being "smart" jumped out and started running. What i didnt think about was he might do something else. So all of a sunned "SPLASH" there i go face first in to the sandbar! He had seen me taking off running and he grabbed my foot and i had fell! After all that happened we had gone down the first water fall it was only 4ft though so i wasnt too scared. We hit a set of rapids and man those where fun! After all that the girl in my raft had lost her paddle so all of us in our group where all by eachother. Well our pastor said to me " it looks like she could use a hand grab her foot and help her to the water" well if ya listen to him someone will be in the water! There she went right in to the water. She got back in before we got to the next set of rapids. After we got though that i dont know what i was doing but the pastor pushed me in and i couldnt reach the bottom of the river and it took me forever to get back in. We changed rafts again so i was with one of the jr.s in the group. Well we had another set of rapids to go through and well we got stuck in the middle of the rapid and it took us forever to get down it but we got down the first part.

While all this was going on i got lunched on the second part of the rapids and went flying to the oppiset side of the raft and the girl i was with lunched to my side! when we got down our pastor and the other leader looked at us and said it looked funny and they thought one of us got lunched out of the raft! Well my legs where up straight in the air and she just fell so the raft covered her cause she was laying in the raft! After that there was much eventful things that happened! Until we hit the end of the river! There it was the 8ft. waterfall the one i had been fearing the whole trip! Well to say the least it was sooooo fun i never thought i could have fun on a 8 foot waterfall! However i did! We rode back to the camp site set everything up started a fire and started supper! We had Hobo dinners witch are amazing if you never had them before! It was a bit of a frustrating night for me with 1/2 of the girls in my tent though. Some creepy things had happened while our youth pastor was gone i was soo happy that our other two leaders where there for us though! We all laughed about it later! Well i was happy for bed time when it came! Well one of the Guys decited to pull a prank on us to that related to the creepy stuff earlyer that night! He knocked on our tent made his voice sound different and said "How old are you girls?" well there was a pause and i was about to we got scared and where about to yell for a leader then i saw our y.p. come over to say good night and it was one of our boys that just came over to say goodnight to us! it was one of those you had to be there things! I soo want to go back again!!!