Gracious!

Let me first say that the south lost ultimate frisbee on Friday by one point. It was the quickest game to eight I've ever played. But there is a rematch tomorrow same time, same place. So wish us luck. We are going to kick tail this time and the cleets are coming out. There will be elbows and there may be a few people tripping. Whoops.

So...Saturday....white water rafting. Good times, good times. Left at 6:00 am and headed out to the Arkansas River. We got into those horrible wet suits. In which, mine had a whole in the butt, so I politely asked for another one. There we are, walking down to the river in what is tight spandex and I must say, guys look the funniest. You look at these macho, manly guys, and then they have on a wetsuit that pretty much makes their arms and legs look smaller and they look like twigs, but it does nothing but enlarge the women. What is that about? Not sure really. The first of the day was pretty mild, we did a lot of paddling and we stopped for lunch. After lunch is when the rapids started up. The river was pretty good height but the rapids weren't that big. But still fun. I was on a raft with two guides (one was training), the e-journal guy, Steve, another administrative summer staffer, Heather, and my mentor, Emily. Emily managed to fall INTO the raft about a dozen times, which was quite humerous. I still don't know how she managed to do it, but then again, she's a special creature. We did some 360's in the raft, interesting. And...the only person to fall out of the raft the entire day was our training guide. He was so nice checking to make sure our life jackets were on good and he was getting back to his seat and flipped over. It was pretty funny.

That night the summer staffers, Jim, Emily, Aynsley, and Silas went to Zio's. A great little Italian restaurant down the street. The best manicotti I've ever had. Good times.