There was 10 of us altogether and it was an amazing weekend.
We drove up last Friday night, got our tents up and just relaxed for a few hours. We were up for breakfast at 8am, and our day began. We had a briefing session, then got our paddles, lifejackets and helmets on and loaded up onto a school bus for a 15 minute drive to the water.
Apparently the first rapids are the biggest:
We had two really great guides in our boat, and we went through several rapids, and were able to come back and surf a couple of times at each one:
Yup, that's me in the red. Apparently I equate rafting with rodeos. I was attempting to wave to the camera, but just seconds prior had been face down in rapids so....
The day was amazing; I even jumped off a cliff even though I was absolutely terrified. (It felt really high... but as we paddled by afterwards, it looked like maybe 15 feet high... It still felt much higher!) We were on the water for over 4 hours, then caught a pontoon boat to ferry us back to the resort and feed us (we were starving by then!)
We had a great evening, steak dinner and some drinks. There was also a bachelor party group rafting so they were quite entertaining (and very good guitar players).
Sunday was a resort day so we enjoyed the beach, the water slide, beach volleyball, and the beautiful weather. (Surprisingly enough, at an outdoor event that I planned, we had perfect weather).
It was a fantastic weekend. I think we were all hooked and can't wait to go back and try smaller boats (they tend to flip a bit easier; we were in a 12-man but the 6-man boats were upside down (mostly on purpose) several times). I would say a very successful 30th birthday celebration.
Oh, and goal #79 complete =)
