Bucket List--one down, a million to go!

Last Sunday, me, Dede and Frances FINALLY went white water rafting--or weight water lifting, as Hayden put it--on the Ocoee!

Dede bought tickets back in April for my birthday but every time we planned to go, something kept coming up. We finally decided we HAD to just go before the tickets expired and fortunately for us, Frances has moved back to the 'ham so she decided to tag along with us.

I wasn't scared of the rafting itself. I started to get a little nervous when he started going through the commands--one in particular: hit the deck. That is when everyone drops to their knees in the bottom of the raft as we go over a rough rapid. That one made me a little nervous because of my weak knees. But "oh well" I thought. I'm here now. I either do it, endure the pain and risk falling in the river or back out and admit I'm getting too old and too fragile for strenuous activity. Ha! You guys know me. The latter is NOT going to happen ANYTIME soon! So I sucked it up and got in the boat!

At the first "hit the deck", I hit the deck. It did not hurt. It was not even uncomfortable. Now, getting back up--that was a little hard but luckily I didn't have far to pick my fat ass up and scoot over to the edge of the boat! Maybe I wasn't the most graceful rafter ever but I don't think anyone was studying me. Everyone was too busy studying the other woman--an experienced rafter--that had fallen out of the boat and lost her paddle! Bwahahahaha

Okay, I'm sorry. I didn't laugh at the time but I did after we got back because it wasn't the only time she went over or lost her paddle. In fact, it got to be a little irritating after awhile.

Dede and Frances did not fall out or lose their paddles either. We had AMAZING fun! We even hopped in and swam for a bit. We absolutely loved every minute of it and cannot wait to go back again!

And as much as we rowed and as much kneeling and up and down as I had to do, I was not even sore the next day. So...I'm NOT as in bad of shape as I thought! Other adventures, here I come!!!!