4th of July!!

I totally forgot that I had not made a post about my July 4th activities. I went white water rafting and then went on to the Bear Lake area. It was sooo much fun! It was much better than working, which is what I have done for the past 3 July 4th's.

On Friday the 4th we got up at either 5 or 6:30, I don't remember the exact time. All I knew was that it was early and I did not want to be up. So we drove there and the leader did not really know how to get there so we got lost a couple times. It was great... So we finally get to where we wanted to start our rafting. The water was soooo high and moving extremely fast. I think the ranger guys there said it was moving at 18,500 somekind of inches a minute or something like that. All I knew was that it was faster than when I had gone in September. I was a little nervous about doing it considering when I had gone in September there was no question as to whether the guys with us weighed more than me. Well this time it was different.... There was no question in my mind that I weighed more than the guys on the trip.

Our first run down the river was great. I was really looking forward to seeing Big Kahuna, but I found out that the water was too high for it to be any rapids. Big Kahuna was my favorite rapid that we went down in September. Then I found out that it was OK because there was one that would take the place of Big Kahuna. It is called Lunch Counter. Apparently on that rapid 1 in every 4 rafts flip. I was a little nervous about this just because I did not want to get out of the raft inthe middle of a huge rapid like that one. We hit the rapids perfectly on it!! It was amazing! There are people that jsut chill by the rapid and watch the rafters go down it. They were cheering us on and we were all yelling because of the awesomeness of the whole thing.

Our second time down was a different story though..... We changed up the seating arrangements which should not have been done. The guys decided that they wanted to try some rapids that we missed in the first run..... Not a good idea. So the first real rapid that we hit caused a little bit of a problem. There was a rock that we did not see until we were basically right on top ot it, and when we went over it some of the people stopped paddling which is a big no-no. The back of the raft, where I was seated, got sucked back into the water, and there was a moment where I was not sure if I was still in the raft or in the water. It was a moment of great fear for me, because I knew that if I was in the water more than likely I would have died. The water there was churning in a circular motion so it would be like I was caught in an undertoe, only swimming parallel to it would not get you out if it. I would have to wait for it to spit me out and who knows when that would be. Scary I know. But we were able to get out of it after a lot of struggling and some hardcore paddling. Then we got to the Lunch Counter again, and we did not hit it right. I was praying the whole time that we would not flip, and my prayers were answered. We did not have as good of a ride but we did not flip thank goodness. Then we decided to pull off to the side and watch people and just relax a little. That was another not so good idea, nothing bad happened it just took forever to get out of the place we were and it made us really tired.

After we were done we went to my room mates home in the Bear Lake area and we watched the fireworks and then lit some of our own. On Saturday, we went to Bear Lake and played in the Lake and the sand.

It was so much fun!! I am so glad that I was here for it!!!

Now here are the pictures from the trip...

This is all of us before our first run.

After our second go at the Lunch Counter.

The best picture of the rapids we got. They look pretty cool to me.

Only in Idaho, would you need a blanket on the 4th of July.

The boys were very sleepy and fell asleep while Niccol read them a bedtime story.... aren't they just precious. :)

I don't have any good pictures from the Lake but it was real real fun.