Drink Water Upside Down…It Goes Down Faster

There are really three scenarios for the weekend. Scenario number 1 consists of mowing the yard, cleaning the garage, Home Depot, and Bed Bath & Beyond (if you have time), Chipotle for dinner, maybe a movie if it’s before 9 o’clock. Sound familiar? Then there is scenario number 2. Gym, Tan, Laundry as “The Situation” likes to call it. The kind of person that lives for Saturday night. Spending all your time getting ready for the one syllable club scene and places like “Lime”, “Jet”, “Hush”, “Tryst”, “Shove”, “Squeeze”, “Push”, “Why Did I Just Pay a $50 Cover To Get In Here To Stand This Close To Another Dude”...Yes, those clubs, and then a late night run to the Denver Diner? Sound like you? Or do you want to get into Scenario number 3 and create a real buzz in your life?

 

 That’s me on the far right. The guy that everyone is looking at, upside down, staring at a 3-ton boulder coming my way. It was a trip on the Arkansas River through the Royal Gorge. We were told it was experts only, but what does that mean? I mean, c’mon, who’s an “expert rafter”? Does that mean that you are an expert if you don’t load up your raft with cases of beer and a waterproof CD player blasting Jimmy Buffet all day long? Whatever it meant, we said yes, and hopped on the raft and got the trip underway. The picture you see above is a Class 5 Rapid called “Sunshine” and as you can see, the only part of me that saw this particular part of the river is, ironically, where the sun usually doesn’t shine. Upside down and in the middle of the scariest rapids I have seen in some time. When I came up for air, all I got was the under-belly of the raft (which was the worst part). NO AIR for about 10 seconds when it finally hit me: This might be a bad day. However, I did manage to find the surface (eventually) and crash through a few rocks and a couple more rapids before coming to my senses and locate my friends screaming for me on the side of the river about 100 feet away. As I finally approached the boat, I was completely out of breath and laughing at the fact that I made fun of the “expert only” phone-call earlier that week. As I was being pulled up onto the raft (shorts near my ankles which is a neat feeling after being in the 50 degree water for 3 minutes) I realized something, something very important…

I still like Scenario number 3, I’m just a lot better at Scenario number 1.

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