Weekend

Multiple events happened during the weekend of August 1st - and what a crazy weekend it was. Our fellowship group, along with a few youngadult fellowship people, went whitewater river rafting. I took it upon myself to plan the trip and boy was it a stressful one. We met up at church in the morning and went up to the American River (just a bit pass Sacramento). We got lost for a while but still managed. Our journey down the river started out pretty slow, just testing out the rapids. There were various calm waters for use to play water-fight with the other rafts and go swimming. I think the highlight of that event was when Ray, Steph and I pushed Franklin into the water. It was so funny!! I kind of pushed Tiffany into the water as well, but Steph pushed me in too. That water was FREEZING! I could feel my skin begin to prick and tingle from the cold. But that wasn’t the real problem. The main problem was that a lot of us were drifting further downstream. We had to swim against the current and it wasn't easy. I was so tired afterwards. Next, we had lunch and then went on to tackle the class +3 rapids. It was very fun, even for my second rafting trip on the same river. There was one rapid that caused a lot of trouble for us though. We crashed into it and paddled forward but we had to do a quick right turn or else we would get stuck on the rocks; which is exactly what happened. We got stuck on some rocks for a good five minutes. Quite embarrassing as there were photographers at the top shooting us. Hahah. The rest of the river was pretty typical. An exciting and fun experience at the end of the day. Good times.

We got home around 11 o'clock PM. Steph and I were in a rush to get to Borders for the Breaking Dawn Release Party. Now that I think about it, I'm kind of glad we were late. The event wasn't as productive as I though. Poor Tiff had to wait through the whole thing by herself. She won a BD button though! We got home and those two immediately started to read. I didn’t, because if I did, I wouldn't be able to stop. I wouldn’t sleep that night and would end up extremely tired for the next day's event. So I went to bed as those two went on.

The following day was a hiking day! Can you believe all my favorite things in one weekend? I was so happy. We went Fort Funston. It is such a beautiful place. The beach (Full of dogs) is a lot for pretty than the bare SF ocean beach. The hike around the cliffs is just as fun, with the various paths and trails. And finally, the view! I can tell you how breath-taking the view is from there. I was all the way to the horizon of the vast open ocean. There really aren’t any words to describe the view - you'd have to go see it for yourself. My new playground. The only flaw was the sewers by the beach. I really wanted to walk along the beach to the Westlake area, but the dang stinkin sewers were in the way. We tried to climb over it, but the smell was REALLY REALLY REALLY bad. I got a good whiff of it and would have literally fall on my knees. It was that bad. Next time, we'll hike around it before going down to the beach.