Loose Knife on a Coast Guard Rubber Raft

So yesterday I went white water rafting. I won't lie...it was pretty awesome. The trip started out with a 4 1/2 hour drive to the river...thank you Brent...we (Haley, Sam, and Brent) arrived to zooraft somewhere down by Oregon at about 1:30pm. Upon arrival we were promptly given a full body wet suit, splash guard jacket, a life jacket and a nice blue helmet. We were looking GOOOD...and it was a bit warm yesterday which made all this get up even better. We had to climb down this canyon down a steep set of stairs to make it to the river. We got in our "mini-raft" and were given directions by our guide John on forward paddling, back padding, and tucking in the boat with our paddles for the BIG one's. We were on our way.

Within about 2 minutes of our trip down the Columbia River (I think this is where we were :) We noticed that a guy in an inflatable cayak had flipped out of his boat. John instantly yells to us to grab the guy if he gets close and his boat. So, Sam and I keep paddling over rapids as Brent grabs the cayak and John grabs this guy out of the water and pulls him on our boat. Our 5 person boat just became a 6 person boat....Just call us the Coast Guard. We made it to a clearing and the guy hopped out back into his boat and we continued on. (we heard later that this guys cayak ripped a hole and they weren't even sure where he was at....this makes me want to go in an inflatable cayak down the river for sure....)

It was about this time that Sam notices something shiny and black by Brents foot in the front of the boat. Brent then pulls out a KNIFE!!! It was pretty funny to see the look on our guide's face. He had no idea where that had come from and was pretty flustered as he told us to look out for any rocks as he quickly put the knife in a bag away from our rubber raft. We all thought this was pretty funny.

All in all, it was pretty amazing. Although I was expecting more intense rapids and to be thrown in the river, this did not happen. I did get thrown across the boat once though and almost knocked Haley out, but our guide saved her. :)

We finished our trip and were not able to go over the Hussum Falls, which was a bummer (the water was too high). I love being out in nature and by the water. There's just something about it. After 2 1/2 hours of EXTREME white water rafting we loaded up our car and drove another 4 1/2 hours back home...thank you Brent. :)