Having a 4-day weekend is the best - having Thursday off was great because I got a lot of errands done, plus I got to have lunch with jean and alice AND we watched legally blonde 2 (yeah, the movie was not that great. The first one was way better).
On Friday we got up bright and early at 5:30am to head up to Sacramento to go river rafting! We then headed over to our state's captial to watch some fireworks and spent the night there. Some highlights from our trip:
- falling asleep in jt's car on the drive up and waking up to him singing to madonna in a falsetto voice (hey, I guess anything that keeps him awake, right?)
- watching jerry try to throw big rocks as far as he could. I'll hopefully send the videos of this to andrea so that she can put them up on her site. Pretty funny stuff.
- we got perfect weather. It wasn't that hot (at least not for Sacto), and the river was pretty empty. Lots and lots of water fights and some fun rapids totally made the day.
- jumping out of the raft after our last rapid and floating downstream with andrea and jen. The funny part was when jerry jumped out - while andrea, jen, and i swam to keep with the raft, jerry ended up floating downstream ahead of us and started screaming "HELP!" We told him to paddle backwards, but he said he couldn't, so jen had to go after him to keep him calm and from going any further. I guess you had to be there, but it was pretty funny, especially since he wasn't even that far away, but he wouldn't stop yelling for help. Props to andrew who hates water, but still jumped into the river (albeit for a very short time) with us.
- don't ever leave a can of soda in your car if you leave your car in the sun in scramento weather. ask andrew about that one.
- watching fireworks in Sacramento. Our hotel was *right* next to the fireworks, so we just had to walk down the street to view them. Unfortunately, we didn't realize the fireworks would be in the sky to our left, which was blocked by a bunch of trees. When we heard the first fireworks go off, we all scrambled around so that we could get a view of it. We did end up getting a decent view, although still partly blocked by one tree. The bad part was we were totally in the line of fire of the fireworks' ashes and debris. That was not fun. Imagine bits of ashes falling into your eyes (and your mouth if you weren't careful), hair, and all your food and belongings.
- waking up Saturday morning, completely sore in my entire back and shoulders - but not because of river rafting, but because of the broken pull-out bed that jenie and i slept in. Ouch, i was in total pain. We both were. Who would have thought a bed would make me sore, but not rafting?
- finding out that a ferrari chose to park next to eon in the parking lot. Yes, the guys drooled all over it. Check out the pics of it.
- eon & his car leaving sacramento after all of us, but beating all of us back to moutain view. What a madman! That Mazda Protege can go faster than people think.
All in all, we had a blast, and we're ready to upgrade and raft the next level next time!
Pictures are uploaded. Click here for pictures from JT's housewarming, here for pictures from andrea's birthday, and here for river rafting pictures. Hopefully george's pictures of us on the river turned out since he was the only one with a waterproof camera.
On Friday we got up bright and early at 5:30am to head up to Sacramento to go river rafting! We then headed over to our state's captial to watch some fireworks and spent the night there. Some highlights from our trip:
- falling asleep in jt's car on the drive up and waking up to him singing to madonna in a falsetto voice (hey, I guess anything that keeps him awake, right?)
- watching jerry try to throw big rocks as far as he could. I'll hopefully send the videos of this to andrea so that she can put them up on her site. Pretty funny stuff.
- we got perfect weather. It wasn't that hot (at least not for Sacto), and the river was pretty empty. Lots and lots of water fights and some fun rapids totally made the day.
- jumping out of the raft after our last rapid and floating downstream with andrea and jen. The funny part was when jerry jumped out - while andrea, jen, and i swam to keep with the raft, jerry ended up floating downstream ahead of us and started screaming "HELP!" We told him to paddle backwards, but he said he couldn't, so jen had to go after him to keep him calm and from going any further. I guess you had to be there, but it was pretty funny, especially since he wasn't even that far away, but he wouldn't stop yelling for help. Props to andrew who hates water, but still jumped into the river (albeit for a very short time) with us.
- don't ever leave a can of soda in your car if you leave your car in the sun in scramento weather. ask andrew about that one.
- watching fireworks in Sacramento. Our hotel was *right* next to the fireworks, so we just had to walk down the street to view them. Unfortunately, we didn't realize the fireworks would be in the sky to our left, which was blocked by a bunch of trees. When we heard the first fireworks go off, we all scrambled around so that we could get a view of it. We did end up getting a decent view, although still partly blocked by one tree. The bad part was we were totally in the line of fire of the fireworks' ashes and debris. That was not fun. Imagine bits of ashes falling into your eyes (and your mouth if you weren't careful), hair, and all your food and belongings.
- waking up Saturday morning, completely sore in my entire back and shoulders - but not because of river rafting, but because of the broken pull-out bed that jenie and i slept in. Ouch, i was in total pain. We both were. Who would have thought a bed would make me sore, but not rafting?
- finding out that a ferrari chose to park next to eon in the parking lot. Yes, the guys drooled all over it. Check out the pics of it.
- eon & his car leaving sacramento after all of us, but beating all of us back to moutain view. What a madman! That Mazda Protege can go faster than people think.
All in all, we had a blast, and we're ready to upgrade and raft the next level next time!
Pictures are uploaded. Click here for pictures from JT's housewarming, here for pictures from andrea's birthday, and here for river rafting pictures. Hopefully george's pictures of us on the river turned out since he was the only one with a waterproof camera.
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