Sometimes you just need to get away for, you know, a day or two. Just to forget about all your bills for a while and to be less stressed (a somewhat healthy idea) and have a little good, clean fun. Well, we found that visiting friends in North Carolina who used to live by us. And their idea of a fun, cheap diversion was just right.
The second day with them we went down to a place on Green River that has these huge, colorful tubes (the donut hole is not cut out for younger children, who can be "towed" by a stronger adult). A bus took us to a place along Green River to start out, and before we were in the water a minute we hit rapids. They were not the boat churning, tip you over in an instant kind, but the kind that toss you a bit as you sit in the tube on your back. You can also lean forward on your stomach. This didn't seem comfortable to me, so I stayed on my back --- but I got sunburned later (and should have shifted position more often).
This 3 mile water trek took us by some slow "riffles" and some real good dips. In a few places, I had to use my shoe -- an old one I allowed to get all wet-- to push off of the big, jutting out rocks. It seemed a little hairy a few times, because it was my first time going tubing. We went as a group and tried to stay near each other; sometimes, if someone got too far ahead, he or she would grasp a passing branch and hang on and wait.
We weren't given any special instructions, but our friends said to watch out for jutting out branches because they could smack you in the face. And if you wore glasses you could lose them! So I was careful to keep away from branches and hand paddled away from them, and put a string around my glasses (got it at Walmart) to help keep from losing my glasses. It was quite a ride and you got some exercise too!
The spouse also did some fishing and we did a little hiking and ate a "cookie" cake for our friends' grandaugther's birthday. I guess that hit the spot.
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