Floating down a River

 A couple of Mondays ago we went TUBING down the Warm River with Morgan, Andrew, some of Morgan's family, and Andrew's sister.  It was a very UNFORGETTABLE experience to say the least.

This is us before we started the trip down the river.  We were so happy!  

Who knew what lied ahead of us!

This was the FIRST tragedy!  I had my knee down in the middle of the tube and the water got way shallower than I thought!  That was when the rock came out of no where and SCRAPED me!  How dare that rock!

Ok!!  This is such a beautiful view!!!  It was a wonderful site!

Cute little Lily on the raft!

Hannah having a blast.

All of us having a GREAT time.....until........

We saw what we were about to come upon.

Do you see that rock?????

I am pretty sure Morgan got a good look at it!

Well, luckily, Morgan was totally fine and then we realized the bigger picture.  All of the tubes were tied together.  Andrew and I were on one side of the raft and the other smaller tubes were on the opposite side.  Well, when came upon this rock our tube went one way and the other tubes went the other....which meant we were STUCK!!!!

This is my view from our tube.

This is what we saw from on top of the rock as we were getting out of the tube and standing on top of the rock.

Andrew got out first and then it was my turn!  Those rapids were pretty strong!  As you can see from my face....it was all good!

We all survived!  I ended up in the raft and Andrew had the big tube to himself.  We did lose the little tube that was inside of the big tube.  A small sacrifice!

We were so excited to be done with all of that. We were enjoying the rest of trip down the river, except that we were freezing and it was raining.....what a perfect day to float the river.

Then we saw these wonderful things.  We tried our hardest to get away from them in time, but it didn't quite work that way!

Leah was too scared to even look!  Actually she fell asleep on the trip!

Lily does not like what she sees!

To make a long story short...Too late (what movie is that from?) 

Anyways, to make a long story short, Joney got stuck under one of the pillars which caused the raft and all other tubes to be stuck, which causes Morgan, Hannah, Kelsey and Andrew to be let out of their tubes, which caused for all of the little kids in the raft to start crying which made for a wonderful time!

Morgan, Kelsey, and Hannah waiting for the tubes to get to them!  

We were all fine!

We were definitely watched over this day!

The girls resting from a long trip down the river!

YEA!!!  Solid ground.  What a glorious thing!

We were all safe and happy and COLD!

We only had one car at the bottom of the river, some people took all of the little kids to get them warmed up at home.  We waited for them to come back for us and the tubes.  We definitely started a fire while we waited. It was one hot fire too!  It singed the hairs on my leg!  I know, I know....I should have shaved!  About thirty minutes later we were in the car heading home as well.  This trip was pretty adventurous!  I CAN'T WAIT for our next one!

PS:  Look at this really cool tree growing out of the ROCK!

AMAZING!

Thanks Andrew and Morgan for inviting us to float down the river with ya!