We went up to our property in Lava this weekend with our friends Chris, Kami, and their baby (he's the one under my Lake Powell post), and their friends Jed, Amy, and their 3 children. We got there Friday evening and whipped up some hot dogs and baked beans. The next day we went to town and rented tubes to float the river. There is a couple "small" waterfalls you can tube down, but I was too scared so I started farther down the river and waited for the rest of the group. I watched Roob go over the falls, and it didn't look bad AT ALL. It was more of a slope, actually. Well finally we all catch up to each other. The current was pretty strong, and there were some decent little rapids to go through. The trick is to try to keep yourself feet first so you don't flip over. Well guess who flipped over? ME. L-a-m-e. I flip over in about waist high water and the current is dragging me (now out of my tube) over all these big rocks and my legs are getting all banged up. As soon as I got my footing back, I'd get plummeted by more tubers who can't help but hit into me (there are a TON of tourists floating the river, too) and here I go back into the current of death. Next thing I know here is Mr. Roob the hero coming to help me. I'm such a dork that I don't realize if I go to the side of the river I'd get out of the strong current! He helps me figure this out and the rest of the way down was fine. It was pretty fun, actually.
Ok, so now we're all out and we want to go down again. This time, Roob and a couple others convince me that the waterfall part wasn't bad at all and I should come on it. Well I had seen him go over it and it didn't look bad from atop the hill. So I consented. As we're getting into the river I started to worry a bit. Maybe I shouldn't do this??? Well we did. Apparently since we got into the river in a different spot than Roob and them got into the first time, we got sucked into a different current area and it took us clear over to the other side of the waterfall! All of a sudden I see this cliff and I started to freak out. Over we go, all four of us, down about a 6-8 foot vertical drop!!! Kami, Mitch, and Roob crash into each other and then are basically spit out of the rapids down river. I somehow manage to stay on my tube (thank goodness) but I am totally stuck in those rapid suction holes! At first I was like, "oh good I'm ok", but then I realized that I could not get out. I was wiggling and everything but there was NO WAY that tube was going out of that hole. So I've got the waterfall plummeting me from the left, and a huge rapid bubbly wave on my right. I thought my only way out would really be to flip myself off the tube and use my legs to get me out of the hole. But then I wasn't sure how deep it was, and I was scared I'd be sucked underwater or beaten to a pulp by the rocks. Then the worst fear hits me. What if more tubers come over the edge of the waterfall and FaLL ON me? There's no way they could see me or know that I was down there. All of a sudden I started to panic! That would really, really suck. Anyways, next thing I know, my adorable little hubby is literally running upstream in the rapids coming to save me. I have NO IDEA how he got back upstream, but he said it was total adrenaline since he was worried. He couldn't get too close to me, so he handed me a really long thick tree branch and eventually was able to pull me out of the rapids while still on my tube. I was so happy to be out of that hole I could've cried.
Then there was one more bigger rapid area to go through, and by this point I am terrified. I wasn't able to get my tube turned around feet first in time, so I went over it BACKWARDS and did a back flip off my tube and into the water. It was a miracle I didn't hit any rocks or hurt myself. WOW. After that, Roob hooked onto my tube the rest of the float down since he was so worried. The rest of the ride was really fun, but after that 2nd trip I was DONE. They all went down another time, and his friend Chris got really banged & scratched up and was miserable the rest of the day. Poor guy. Worst I got was two stubbed toes, some cuts on my hand, and bunches of bruises on my body. I consider myself one lucky momma.
After that, we hung out at the big pool and went on the waterslides. They are so fun, but too quick of a ride! Later we went back to our lot and grilled steaks over the fire, and Jed cooked up some dutch oven potatoes with bacon and cheese(yum)! The next morning, the boys went and played golf and we packed up all the stuff out of the trailers. We leave our trailer up there for the summer (that was the first time we brought it up there this year). We had the 3 dogs with us, and Gator kept jumping in and out of the pond and getting everyone wet and muddy. Goose was rolling around in dust so she turned from white to chocolate brown. She was disgusting! But the dogs had a blast, even though by the end of the weekend I wanted to kill them all. Sunday morning I had a crazy emotional annoying moment and started screaming like crazy woman at the dogs. My allergies were driving me nuts (being in the woods), and I was hot and annoyed that Gator kept getting me dirty (just put on a pair of clean pants, too). Not to mention that there were 5 billion bees and flies buzzing around my head at all times. Oh well. I totally overreacted, but I blame it on the pregnancy. :)
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