Day 10 - white water warriors

Ok well that was one hell of a day. Had a little rest in the morning and then left for the river that we would rafting in the the afternoon. The car trip went well except we almost got lost and spend a couple of minutes going "is this the right way", daddy "I don't know but let's keep driving" (or something along that line), but we did in fact get to the right place and did a one minute (more like 10 seconds) walk to a viewing platform where we watched some raft do the same thing we would be doing..... Going down a seven meter waterfall!!!!! (And two out of four rafts flipped ) We did another 25 minute walk to another spot on the river and watched some more rafts do some rafting. Kate got the shits on the way back because we didn't have time to go the the morning tea spot that had been planned. Once we got back home we had lunch and a rest before leaving again at 1:55 on the dot. 

Once we ha arrived at rafting place. We had to wait for about half an hour. (Which as you can imagine was rather boring and we lost all our adrenaline). Once the guides and bussing finally arrived we were all ushered into a little corner and they gave us a safety talk. The guy doing the talk was hilarious. He talk no one or two in the wet suits and then repeated no wee wee and poo poo in wet suit for the Asians (just as a side note most of the asians couldnt swim!!). When he got out the helmets he said "now every Australians call this a blood bucket". One of guides came back with a huge lump on his head and mum (as always subtle as a sledge hammer) yelled well we don't want that guy, she was very lucky he didn't respond but he almost definetly heard her. Natural once we were all geared up and had been bussed to the river naturally the guide we got was the one who bumped his head. So my family of five, James, Alison 23 other people had to be split over five rafts 9 in each raft. My raft had my family and James on it and Alison went on another raft. Our guide was called Jimbo and way absolutely fantastic. On the trip we went over three water falls two small and one large, seven meter  actually but because the water was so high it was only about 6. The first water falls were fine the the third (the big one) we were all petrified for. Before going over we paddled twise and then jumped into the bottom on the boat clinging on for dear life. We went fully under the water before poping the right way up!!!!! (We were all very scared about flipping). I think our guide was happier than all of us put together because in his last two trip, once he had flipped and the other he'd got hit in the face with a paddle. The rest of the trip was great and he took us back in a particular rapid about ten times. By the end of the trip we were all exhausted and went home cold and wet looking forward to our dinner. 

Dinner was BBQ on which we did sausages and Kebabs. Might add more later but am about to bourd my second plane home. Thanks for reading everyone  :D