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white water, rocks, tubes, sun (but chilly weather), helmets, a cooler and six penguins (i mean....six people in wet suits). you're probably thinking crazy, i know but to these six adventuresome
friends it was a blast. stories and memories to last a lifetime.

let me set the stage a little. here we are the summer of 2005 floating down the river in early july. while fun, there were many lazy spots and plenty areas where we actually had to carry our tubes over rocks. even though there were slow spots we had plenty of laughs and fun.

at some point during that trip someone had the bright idea of starting up river a little more. we all thought, great idea, so the plan went into motion. once the logistics were all worked out we dedicated another day to the river. this time, better rapids and hopefully higher water. this was true for the beginning of our trip. however, halfway through, again the water became slow and low. our float took five hours.

during that float we joked about going down the river in dry suits in december so we could see the houses along the river lit up for christmas and so the river would be higher and faster and wouldn't take so long. obviousally we were joking. at that point we were running on to much sun and not enough to eat accept a few corn flakes (or was it honey combs) that someone brought.

funny thing is my husband loves ideas like that and he ran with it. granted it wasn't carried out in december, in dry suits but just this weekend they (my hubby, his dad and four of our close friends...i mean you have to be close friends to go along with something like that right?) completed the adventure of going down the river when the water was high and the river running wild. and aside from loosing the cooler with the food in it and a couple extra tubes they safely made it down and it only took two and a half hours.

to read a personal testimony of white water river tubing/floating 2006 visit

Amber

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