Hit the Deck!

Today began with a 4:30 am wake up call and a 5:00 am departure from the Red House. You ask why would you be up that early on a Thursday morning, well the reason is that the Moore family took us white water rafting today.

I had never been rafting so I was not quite sure what to expect. We arrived at the outfitter, and all got in our wet suits. Then we pilled on to a bus complete with our paddles, helmets, and PFDs to the put in site.

After arriving to the put in site we got our commands for paddling, like all forward, or all backward, or my personal favorite HIT THE DECK!(where you could fall out of the raft so you hunker down on the inside of the raft) and were put into the Hudson river.

I was sitting toward the back of raft and so for quite awhile I managed to stay pretty dry as Pokey and Carolyn got drenched up front. Although we did switch it up and I too got pretty wet. Also during the rafting tirp we got to do a little swimming and jump off a large rock. It was about 10- 15 feet in the air.

Our trip was pretty tame but we did paddle through some decent size rapids and even had a couple commands of Hit the deck. After about 5 hours of rafting we came to the end of our advenrture. Our guide did an excellant job and gave us some rougher water along the way.

On the way home we stopped at Panera Bread for dinner. One little catch, we needed to do community prayer. So we all shared about where, and through whom we had seen God that day in our rafting experience. It was neat to share our community prayer experience with Pat and Carolyn. They got an inside look at our Lay Assistant communtiy.