Wild Water

We surprised the boys with a white water rafting trip yesterday.  We worked it into our trip to upstate New York.  It was a first time for the boys.  It was a good starter river.  The Deerfield River, Fife Brook Dam, is listed as a class 2-3 rapid river.  There was one class 3.  There was only a couple of class 2.  Still, it was a good time.  The boys were excited to start but still a little nervous.  I tried to give them an overview of what to expect.  You never can really do it justice verbally though.
     Once we got the first rapid over, it was a piece of cake.  We took all the hard routes.  We did all the tricks.  We did some Karate Kid balance battles.  One person standing on each bow/stern.  Two men enter, one man leave.  Last man standing wins.  There were some good battles.  We did some cool poses for the camera.  The did some raft wheelies.  We swam/floated in the river.  We all napped on the way to NY.  Good thing Demi drove.  This is a great family activity.  We need to do it again.  On a bigger river.