Urban White Water Rafting

Do you have your tickets? Yeah, the tickets to the GUN SHOW!

Before I went to visit Matt/Jamie up in Richmond it was decided by me that we would go river rafting on the James River --- the only river with class 5 rapids within city limits. Well usually there are class 4 and 5 rapids unless of course you go rafting when the river is low.

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So before we left on the bus to go up river, I was walking around the dock -- which turns out to be across the James River from where the ships brought in the slaves. And the actual dock I was standing on was where President Lincoln gave the emancipation proclimation or something.

Yeah, so I was screwing around on the dock wasting time with Matt/Jamie and I found these crab claws, so of course, I picked them up and was playing with them. They ended up in my ears, but at least I wasn't attacked by birds. I took them out and put them in my floatation device, but sadly I had to rid myself of them while we were rafting because I almost cut myself and poked out an eye. That would have been embarassing.

Our guide Zoe, a 4th grade school teacher by trade is on her second summer as a river rafting guide on the James River. After conversing with Matt/Jamie it was agreed upon that all cute read heads look like Alyson Hannigan, you know the red head from the American Pie movies as well as How I met Your Mother, currently airing on CBS Monday Nights. Really, it's not up for discussion.


Oh, I fell out of the raft on the first rapid, the lady paddiling across from me lied, she didn't know what the hell she was doing.

This was taken when you can jump down in between the rapids and ride the underwater flow about 10 yds down river. Pretty cool.

Yep, rugged aren't I?

Aren't they cute newlyweds?