Floating Down the Buffalo

 Keeping with the goal of the year of doing new things, Sam and I took off with a group of friends to float down Buffalo River today. We started down the river and come up on one of two rope jumps. Most everyone in the group took a turn jumping off the rope. We hung out here (no pun intended) for awhile until it got crowded so took to the river again.

 We made several stops along the way because what started out as an overcast, dull, not so hot day quickly turned into a humid, pretty stinkin' hot day. It rained quite a bit this week, so we had really high water to swim around in. The current was pretty strong too so we had some fun trying to swim against the current.

 This is the group of girls, plus Blake. He thought he was being a pretty big ladies man getting in on our picture. It was really fun getting to know other people today.

 We had five canoes and two kayaks joined together floating down the river. I think we had several people confused when they passed our convoy or watched as we passed by from the bank having a mass of canoes all banned together. We definitely perfected the art of teamwork! :)

This is the last picture that was taken on my camera from the trip before Sam and I flipped our canoe. I got cocky and took the camera out of the wetproof bag and kept it with me to take pictures while I was in the canoe instead of only getting pictures after we docked. Well...that proved to be a not so great idea when Sam and I couldn't avoid a tree in time and flipped. I have the worst luck with technology. Luckily, the memory stick still reads. I'll have to see how the rice bath my camera is sitting in turns out in the morning. :/

Everybody had such a great time today! We were all worn out, but met back up to eat a Mexican feast before heading home for the night. A good night sleep in heading our way for sure!