Canon City Break Day! 7/11/09

Day of Adventure!! Today we woke up ready to white water raft. The amazing company we chose to raft with was the Whitewater Adventure Outfitters otherwise known as WAO!! So we made our way down the the office where they were so hospitable yet again and were very accomodating. We met a guy from Wisconsin who was on a month break from work and riding his motorcycle around to many different places. He was quite interested and again very proud of us for our bike ride! We met our guide Aaron the night before and were looking forward to getting in the boat. I have rafted before but this was a first for Chance and it was great to see the excitement before, during and after the trip. So we loaded the bus and headed for Big Horn Sheep Canyon to start our white water adventure. We got in the boat and we were off! Aaron was a great guide and we all worked as a team to successfully get down the river. In the morning we got to stop at one point and get in the water no boat and white water swim if that's what you want to call it! That was pretty cool! I kinda hit a rock though and it pushed me under water, but it's ok I was pretty thirsty and the water was cold! Then it was time to take a break and eat some lunch. The food was delicious and really hit the spot. So, we signed up for the all day trip and so we still had half the trip to go. The last part of the trip was throught The Royal Gorge!! The sights and rapids were simply amazing. We had a few close calls with falling out of the boat, I guess the tow Dougs liked to try and get Chance out of the boat but he stayed strong and kept himself in the boat. Then my turn, we came up on one larger rapid and it pretty much popped me up and almost out but because of my super strength I stayed in the boat:) Then the trip came to an end! We were both shrivled up prunes but had a BLAST!!! We got back to the WAO headquarters and talked with our guide for a bit. He then invited us out to get a cold drink with him and some of the other guides! So he was super nice drove us there and back! They are all very cool people! Thank you Kathy and Tony at WAO and Aaron for being a great guide and letting us keep our lives and for everything else you did for us!! If anyone wants to raft in Colorado let us know cause WAO was an amazing outfitter!! It was then time to clean up make some dinner. Again, it was too hot to sit in our tent so we sat on some chairs to read and write journals. Night Night from there.