New Adventures

Luckily, the Kao’s agreed to come on an adventure with us. We’d been river-rafting as adults, but had never brought kids before. Dave had texted me if we should go up on Friday. Within a few hours, we’d had a plan for Sunday. Sunday we set alarms for 620 am to get out of the house by 7 am. We left 10 minutes til since we knew we needed to get gas on the way out. Coffee was also in order, but Dave had a particular place in mind at Davis. Michelle shared her position with me, which I’d never done before, and we were not too far off from one another. We met up at our coffee place, then headed to get lunch at Subway. We left earlier, but had another stop at WF to get some last needed supplies before heading to the raft place. The Kao’s got there first, and we got one of the last parking spots. It was definitely crowded! We parked a few cars away from the Kao’s, and each of the mom/kids were with the car, trying to keep the kids entertained without getting run over from the cars circling the parking lot. Soon, the husbands came back and we were off to get our rafts. The rafts came with enough life vests and two oars. We set out in the river, and got ourselves situated. Once we figured out the rowing situation, we tethered the two rafts together. It was nice and pleasant, with only minimal paddling, mostly to keep us straight down river and to avoid obstacles. We did hit some enemy pirate kids who were attacking us with water cannons. But we got ourselves steered away from trouble. The kids (and adults) were looking for more adventure, so we steered toward any rapids that we saw. My kids had to go “potty” during our trip, which meant hanging off the side of the raft and taking care of business. Peyton had performance anxiety and needed two trips to get the job done. You will get the cialis 20 mg find description chance to satisfy your partner well for many hours leading to total satisfaction. Hence, either the father cialis without prescription discount here or mother or both should immediately seek medical help if depression and anxiety attacks stand in the way of parent-child relationship. Chicken or the Egg? What comes first? Do metabolic problems precede a viagra 10mg dysfunctional biological clock or vice versa? Dr. But cheapest cialis soft what about the men that have a wide range of Kamagra products. We had lunch in the raft, sharing snacks in between the rafts. At one point, Dave took a breather from paddling, and we ended up running into the tiniest tree in the middle of the river. We were able to push ourselves away, and Dave was back on duty, but not without a few leaves in the raft. The most difficult part of the trip was paddling back to the pick up location. We were to the right, and had to paddle hard left to make it back on shore. We did make it, and we dragged the empty rafts back up on dry land. The total trip was about 2.5 hours. The kids all were instructed to go to the water, in preparation for our shuttle ride back to the start. The kids didn’t quite get subtly of peeing in the river discretely. Peyton hunched over and did her thing, standing within Marcus’ radius of his toileting area. I tried to separate from them all! The ride back was about 15 minutes or so on a school bus. We said goodbye to the Kao’s when we got back to the parking lot. We headed another 20 minutes or so to my mom’s house. We showered up and headed to taste beer at a place my mom wanted to take Dave. We ate dinner at home, and just lounged around until bedtime. We all had plenty of sun, but luckily, no burns for three of us. I made sure to get the tops of our thighs after learning our paddleboard lesson in Hawaii, but Dave had not done it. Despite having board shorts that go down below his knees, he did still have some sun up high as he had hiked them up in the raft. We had even reapplied half way down the river, and now he has a three inch band of red on the tops of his thighs. Now, Dave and Ted want something more thrilling. We’ll see if it’s still kid-friendly, but now we’ve tested out this part of the river for our other friends to join next time. We may even parlay into camping! Go pro pictures to come…


Totally relaxed at grandma’s house. 

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