Day 10 - White Water Rafting

Well today we woke up and ate a hearty breakfast at the hotel. Today was the day that we would embark on our white water rafting. All of us except one that is. Mom's back still wasn't feeling normal so she stayed back and shopped. We decided there is a common theme about our vacation... cold water. Because there were salmon in the stream they controlled how cold the water was from a dam (depending on how deep they released the water at). This water was in the mere mid 50s...

Anyways the rafting was perfect for our first experience. It was a couple miles long and the rapids were spread out by still water. There were two level 4 rapids scattered in with a bunch of level 2 and 3 ones.

We all got soaked a few times, on one of the level 4 rapids I just got unloaded on by the river with massive amounts of water poured on me. During some of the still water times we could jump off and just drift in the current. This would be a fine idea if the water was a little warmer... but we did it anyways. Also we played the wheel of misfortune where someone would stand on the front tip of the raft and would have to balance while the others spun the raft around.

Due to the nature of the water we decided not to take the camera along (no point in having to buy two camera's on the trip). There was a photographer who took our pictures but I don't have his website with me at the moment. Here's the picture mom took of us when we got back:

After that we started our trip back to San Fran. We saw mountains along the way:

and when we finally reached San Francisco we were able to see Barry Bond's home run fireworks. We were crossing the bridge right by the stadium when broke the record.

Now tomorrow we are going to just mosey around town and see the sights.

..::Cal