So Two Weeks Notice

Well I'm flying out on August 17th. In exactly two weeks I'll be in Birmingham, at Samford, for RA training.

Do I have to go back? I don't really know if I'll know how to go back. This summer has been the craziest, most challenging, best summer ever. I have met so many real people. I have been surrounded and encouraged by such a strong body of believers, and poured into by so many people, that it will be so hard to leave them and to go back into a community that is almost the exact opposite, in a lot of ways. I've been praying that God will change my heart and give me the desire to go back to school, but it hasn't exactly come just yet.. But I do have two more weeks.

Anyways, yesterday, a bunch of guides who had the day off went to the Royal Gorge, which is a section of 4 to 4+ white water about an hour and a half away from here that is way more intense than Browns Canyon. It was so much fun. After the big rapids were over, we all flipped on purpose, and then after we flipped our boats back over, had an all out brawl. People were jumping or swimming from boat to boat, throwing people in the water, deflating tubes, and wrestling on what was left of each raft. When we got to the take out, all 4 of our boats had at least two tubes almost fully deflated. It was so much fun.

At one point, during the battle, Abe threw me out of the boat for deflating their tubes, and swam after me. Then after they pulled me back into their boat and I started deflating it again, he put me in a headlock and picked my nose.

It was weird.

But the trip was so much fun. Here is a picture of the Gorge:

Today, I took my family down the river. Jeff just sat in the back and whistled and then played football with Drew, who was in the boat in front of us on a guide gut trip, so I guided the whole thing. So I spent a lot of time going after the ball, when one of them would miss it. It was fun though. And funny. None of my siblings or my parents had been rafting before, so they didn't really know what to expect, but they had a lot of fun. And the weather was really nice, and the water was at 1130 cfs, so it was sweeeet. A lot better than good old 680 cfs.

Well, that is all for now.


ps. I can't decide if I'm crushin' hard, letting it go, or giving up.