Just a quick blog about rafting…we rafted the Nile yesterday and it was amazing..yet terrifying at the same time! My boat decided we wanted to be Mild instead of Wild..and we hit the first rapid and apparently everyone else had by passed it but we didn't know that. We get to the rapid and my guide starts yelling back paddle back paddle and needless to say, our boat of girls paddling skills weren't up to par. Next I see a line being thrown to our boat, my guide grabbing two fist fulls of grass off the embankment with no success of stopping the raft, everyone is just staring at us but we don'tk now why…apparently there were whistles being blown and kayakers flooding toward us to be ready for extreme rescue. The rapid was a level five but something about the water levels made it unraftable. So everyone else is watching us go down it knowing we aren't supposed to and our raft goes completely under and then we popped back out. Apparently one of the head guys said that it was like a washing machine and if we had gone under we probably wouldn't have come out but would have been stuck under there…or broken legs. PTL (praise the Lord) that God had His hand on our raft….I truly believe it was a miracle. Then we rafted down two more level 3 rapids and then came to the last rapid which is called the bad place! hence the title of my blog. We had to get out of our rafts bc the first part of the bad place is all level 6 which is apparently the same as niagera falls…unraftable. So we all climb back in the raft and we have the option of a level 1,5, or 4 and we decide on 4 but are told we are gonna have to paddle past level 5 part which we should have know wasn't possible. They said if we went level 4 we had 50/50 chance of flipping but level 5 is inevitable to flip. So the minute we hit the rapid UNDER!!! I was on the front and was one of the first ones under…then i got trapped under the boat, and I remember thinking I know I'm not going to die or drown but I 100% would have put muy life on the fact that I was going to pass out under water before I came up. I was under I think the longest out of my boat and I couldn't have told you which way was up and I remembering being so far down that when I started hitting the top I could see the sunlight and the white water and knew I have to hit air soon I have to hit air soon! I came up and I felt like if I hadn't come up that very second I would have passed out. I got that first breath of and then hit probably 5 waves of water…i had a kayaker come rescue me and I got back in the boat…traumatized! So it was so worth it for the experience but I would never do it again. Sorry mom and dad for the detailed story but hey I survived 🙂 haha
