Real sinners go white water rafting!Follow

(Short)Story time.

So today was my family's planned white water rafting trip. We traveled about 140 miles down to Hells Canyon, ID to go White Water Rafting on the Salmon River. We got there at about 9:00 AM and started rafting at about 10.

In our boat we had my family (me, little brother, dad, mom), our instructor lady, and two college students. We headed out and it was pretty calm water for about an hour until we hit some mild rapids. After about 12 minutes of small rapids we stopped for lunch.

Everyone ate lunch and we packed up and started back down stream. About 30 minutes downstream we come to some big rapids and one of the college students falls out of the boat. It was pretty funny, he was floating along and laughing and we pulled him back in and it was all fine.

So after that incident the real fun starts. We are passing under a bridge when this wierd guy with a megaphone starts yelling at us. The most memorable things he said were:

"You are all children of the devil."
"You are all sinners."
"I hope God flips your rafts!"
"I pray that God will drown you all in this River."

There were about 5 other rafts full of people and everyone got angry. I heard alot of "Fu[/u]ck you!" "You're a tool!" and "I bet this oar tastes like chicken you as[/u]shole!"

What I don't understand is what in the world was this man trying to do? Was he trying to convert us? Was he just in a pissy mood? I don't get it. Is White Water Rafting a new sin? Praying that we die definatley won't be converting me to his side anytime soon. And what in the world gave him the idea to come to a cliff under a bridge by a river in the middle of Hells Canyon?

Honestly, I think the guy was just a bit out of it. I heard from other groups that he was there all day yelling at rafters going by. I wish I had taken a picture of this guy, it was actually pretty funny.

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So you're telling me not one single person on your trip carried the all essential "super soaker full of beer"? to take care of issues like that? For shame!

I guess it comes from growing up in a small southern town, but that's the view I tend to have of almost all "Christians". I always felt like they believe that anyone who dares to do anything other than pray all day is going to hell.

How dare you have fun and not invite the Lord along, Reeve!

[:shakefist:]

Well, I guess that "weird guy" finally threw down his banjo and traded it for a megaphone.

I liked him better in Deliverance.

Well you don't heed my words here in The Assylum, so I thought I'd try a shout from the bridge.

Heathen!

Here's some pictures of our group rafting. This was the rapids where the dude fell out of the boat. I'm laughing in all of the pictures, I'm the kid in the back with the blue hat, my little brother is in the middle with the yellow hat.

http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf4bf7937a22

Our pictures start on page 6 at IMG_5213 and end at IMG_5218.

Edited, Mon Aug 15 00:46:39 2005 by Reeve

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Fun is the devils tool.

I hope the water washed away your sins.