White Water Rafting

After the trip to Manuel Antonio there was not much down time as always; on Thursday it was off to the river for some white water rafting. This was once again the experience of a lifetime. I had never been rafting before and was not really nervous until we hit the first rapid. Luckily it was a small one and it was not too rough but our boat did get stuck briefly and had to paddle back into the rapid and almost flipped. That was the most trouble we had all day. After a while I got used to rafting and hitting the rapids and it was one of the coolest things I have ever done. I know that there is rafting in the United States but not like this. The scenery was amazing. This country is truly beautiful and pictures do the landscape no justice whatsoever. The rafting trip offered some of the most beautiful landscape I have seen since we arrived in Costa Rica and that is really saying something. I am disappointed that I did not have my camera for the trip but I will never forget it. It seems that I always find myself without my camera when I really want it.
P.J. and I sat in the front of the boat, then Matt and Heidi were behind us and Steph sat in the back with some guy that we did not know, but he was not there for long. He switched boats after two boat flipped; we picked up one lady was terrified and stopped paddling so she just sat in our boat until the lunch break. Our tour guides name was Ricky and he was awesome. We went on class four rapids which were kind of weak in my mind but they were really fun though. I would not mind checking out some class fives at some point in the not too distant future. Our raft was awesome and no one fell out all day….o wait someone ruined that for us….no names here Laser :) We had a really good lunch about halfway through the trip with tortillas and sandwich meat, fruit, salad, chips…..it really hit the spot. The only bad part about the trip was the sunburn. I was really good about putting sunscreen on before the trip but completely forgot the knee and lower thigh. It was pretty burnt and still has a little color today.
Some of the other boats had people falling out all the time. Once again not to name names but apparently abs do not keep you in a raft…I think we all know who I am referring to. I did feel bad for Paul because he fell out once and got trapped between the boat and a rock, he was fine though. No one got hurt on the trip other than some bumps and bruises which is a plus.
The white water rafting was really fun and a great experience, as is everything on this trip, and I hope to go again soon.