The Sun is coming Out!!!!!

So it is starting to get hot again. I am not a fan of the cold so the spring and summer time are my favorites. So when I stepped outside today and felt the sun it my face a thought to my self, "Jumping in the pool would feel so good right now." So then it got me thinking about swimming. Then it got me to thinking about how some people could not swim. Well let me just cut to the chase. Last summer my family went to Georgia and we rented a cabin in the mountains. It was absolutely amazing to say the least. Of course while we were there we decided to get out and about. We went to their version of downtown, Pickin' at the Park, tubing down the river, horseback riding, and then we decided to go White Water Rafting. Let me tell you how excited we all were. It was going to be too much fun I knew for a fact. Well at the end of our White Water rafting adventure fun was the last word I would have used to describe it.

Here are some awesome pictures from our adventure......

The first drop was fun. Not to bad at all. Looked scary though Huh???

Look at that. We are all smiling....not for long!!!!!

Nice and smooth down the white water.

Yes we are entirely submerged in water. But we did pop right back up!!!!

Our tour guides face is telling me bad news.

I would say we were airborne in this one!!!!

I posed if you look closely. I saw the lady taking pictures of us :)

So looks like a lot of fun. And don't get me wrong it was a lot of fun. It would be fun for anyone. So as the camera turned off we were headed towards another  rapid. The Flipper. We all laughed and asked if it was named that for any specific reason. Our tour guide of course said nope. Funny because our raft did the name justice. We flipped. Mind you my 11 year old sister and 9 year old brother were aboard this raft. I literally thought I was going to die. Imagine being stuck in the rapid or under the raft or floating down stream. Well my dad, 1 of my brothers and my little sister got stuck under the raft and my dad tried to push it off but another raft was heading down the rapid as that was happening. They finally flipped the raft back over and only my brother and sister got back in my dad chose to float down river to look for my littlest brother. Well my littlest brother went floating down into the calmer waters so he was fine. Me and my other brother got kicked out of the rapid and were floating in roaring waters. At the beginning of the tour they say if you happen to fall out you point your nose and toes up towards the sky. Easier said than done just so you are aware. I would say this river is about 25 yards wide. I chose yards because I am a football girl and I can picture that distance :) So I was just about in the middle of the river and the nose and toes up thing was not working. I was getting water shot up my nostrils gallons at a time. So i flipped over and swam harder than I ever have swam in my life to the banks of the river where it was the calmest. I reached for a rock that was in about 2 inches deep of water and it was covered in algae so my hand slipped right off. As you might have guessed I am balling in tears freaking out for me and my family because I dont know if they all got out ok at this point. Well i finally got a hold of a rock and that algae was not gunna beat me. I held on to that rock like there was no tomorrow. So i got stable in looked around. The oldest brother that was on the trip pretty much did the same thing I did and he was clear across the river. I saw him and waved. My dad had gotten on one of the other rafts and my little brother had gotten scooped up by another raft. So we were all accounted for but in 4 different rafts. We finally all got back in the raft we originally started in and finished our little trip. I seriously was beyond terrified the rest the the way. I wanted it to be over sooooo bad. The tour guide had told us that the rapids were ranked in numbers of severity. A 6 is not humanly possible to ride in. A 5 is what professionals would attempt and we were doing 3 and 4 level white waters. There is a scale of intensity for you. And we then found out that we went on the roughest day there was.  The damn opens every other day and we went on the day that it opened of course. 

So that is the story of my 2nd and LAST white water rafting trip. I will forever be way to nervous on any raft that is in white waters.