I think my arms want to detach themselves from my body...

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[7-21-09]

So, yesterday I woke up at around 7:40. I didn't have to get up till 8 so I fell back asleep. When my mom came in my room to wake me up, it was around 8:15. I got up and brushed my teeth and all that usual stuff.

See, the reason I was getting up at 8 during summer break was that I was going to the USA National Whitewater Center with some friends. We were supposed to be leaving at 9:30 but that didnt happen, of course.

See, the day before it had been pooring and had continued all through the night. So Paige (most of the people I went with are adults) decided to wait till 10:30 to leave. When we got going it was about 10:50. We were delayed a bit because Marty had to go take a dump...eww...

When we got there the first thing we did was the zipline. It took us about a half hour to get all the way to the top. The guide up there at the time was kinda bossy and we didnt know what she was saying half the time. She didn't explain what we were doing very well.

The zipline was ok. It was very fun at first, but it wasn't really that high, which didn't make it that exilerating, and it wasn't that fast, either. It didn't last that long and it came to an abrupt stop, which scared the shit outta me. It was very uncomfortable just hanging there for 2 minutes as the other guide pulls you in. Then you take a 5 minute walk back up to take the harness off.

After that we went over to where the rafting was. It was 1:30 when it started and the guide, Keener, told us what to do if we went over board, blah blah blah. The group went to get all our stuff on and then they divided the group to different guides. Lucky for us, we had 6 people so we were the last to get divided, and we got Keener (who we all wanted).

The rafting was so much fun! The first thing we did was go around the "easy" part of the trip. We went through that once, then again, but this time we went "surfing." Thats when you ride the "whitewater." Then we went through the difficult part of the trip. Paige was all like: "this is the part where we saw everyone flipping?" and Keener goes "Oh yeah!" he said it was a level 3-4, and the highest you can get is 4-5. And we're all newcomers to this. This was the most exhilerating part of the trip. It was so random you didn't know what was going to happen. When we reached the part that they call 'the rooster tail' we waited for the people in front of us to get rejected by the whitewater but we got pulled in and we collided with them.

Holy shit. I thought I was going under! Lucky for us our guide was smart and yelled "GET DOWN!" right before it happened, so we all dove into the bottom of the raft. It was very exciting.

After the rafting we went kayaking. I was a little hesitant to do that but I decided to and it was ok. But I would have to say that was my least favorite part of the day. We went all the way down to the bridge on the Catawba River and then back. By the time we got back my arms felt like they were gonna fall off! My back hurt, too. It was fun at the beginning, but not so much at the end.

After that we decided to take a break. Marty and Jill wanted to go Mountain biking, but Tyler and I didn't really feel like doing anything at the moment, so Paige and Mike lagged behind with us as Marty and Jill got their bikes and left. 

We went to go get something to drink, as me and Tyler hadn't had anything at all that day, and we went back down to the main part of the center which was where the hard part of the rafting was, so you got to see people getting flipped over and brave kayakers daring the waters.

Then, like 5 minutes later, Mike sees Marty and Jill on the other side of the center (remember we're in the middle) on the path where you walk back from the zipline. Jill was riding her bike back to us and Marty was slowly jogging with his bike along side him behind her. Mike got up and went to his brother (Marty) to see what was wrong.

When they all got back and returned the bikes and all we learned that right into the ride there is this big hill and Marty raced past Jill and he looked back to see where she was and then he just flipped and flipped and flipped.

They made him pay $25 for the bike and yada yada yada...Marty was just making fun of himself cuz thats just the way it is.

We went out to eat at Kristopher's. I had fettucine alfredo and a strawberry smoothie. It was really good. But my but hurt bad. xD

We got back and by then the pictures had been posted on the website so I looked at those. There was a play by play of the 'almost-flip' and that was really awesome!

Then I just went to bed! I was sooo burnt out!

All in all it was an awesome day! :D

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