My Weekend
I had such a great weekend. Who would have though that white water rafting in the near freezing cold winter north of Edinburgh would be a fun way of celebrating!
I had to wake up at 3:30 to get to the airport to catch a flight to Edinburgh. We reached the town, Aberfeldy, for lunchtime, and prepared for the 6.5 miles of river. There were five of us and an instructor in our raft. And there were a couple of other rafts, and some canooers. Our instructor tried to make us do some tricks, with the hope that we would fall in. He got us to do a trick, where we all stood at the front of the raft, on the edge, holding on to each other. Later we did a 'wheelie', where we all got into one end of the raft and he pull up the rear, till the raft capsized. So yes we all ended up in the freezing water!
There were also attempts to board our raft, but we fought them off and dunked them in the water as well! Of course using the paddles to splash everyone else was mandatory!
The rapids were fun, but nothing too scary :( on one of them, our raft got stuck on a rock with the river water torrent heading straight at us, filling our raft and soaking us, yet again! The rafts have lots of holes in the bottom to let out water(!)
As the afternoon passed what little heat from sun there was dropped and we were feeling the coldness, especially in our feet. mine were numb for hours later.
The same company had just opened a 'back packers' accomidation. We really do not know how they managed to open the place, it was a total death trap, no fire / smoke alarms, one fire exit at the far end of the place, no fire doors. Only one working shower for 25 people and the hot water ran out very quickly. It was only £15 per person per night, but then a hotel in the town was £25. Having seen the place I would have rather paid an extra £10.
On sunday we had lunch and went 10 pin bowling (the karting was booked out) and then in the evening I flew home. When I got back I drank some Chocolate milkshake.
Big mistake. The milk must have been off and I woke at 5:30 feeling really bad. So I've been in bed, sleeping and chatting on the laptop since.
Typical that I send a txt message to my boss telling him I'l ill on the day that people are most likely to take a sicki!!
Hope you are all well
Px
I had to wake up at 3:30 to get to the airport to catch a flight to Edinburgh. We reached the town, Aberfeldy, for lunchtime, and prepared for the 6.5 miles of river. There were five of us and an instructor in our raft. And there were a couple of other rafts, and some canooers. Our instructor tried to make us do some tricks, with the hope that we would fall in. He got us to do a trick, where we all stood at the front of the raft, on the edge, holding on to each other. Later we did a 'wheelie', where we all got into one end of the raft and he pull up the rear, till the raft capsized. So yes we all ended up in the freezing water!
There were also attempts to board our raft, but we fought them off and dunked them in the water as well! Of course using the paddles to splash everyone else was mandatory!
The rapids were fun, but nothing too scary :( on one of them, our raft got stuck on a rock with the river water torrent heading straight at us, filling our raft and soaking us, yet again! The rafts have lots of holes in the bottom to let out water(!)
As the afternoon passed what little heat from sun there was dropped and we were feeling the coldness, especially in our feet. mine were numb for hours later.
The same company had just opened a 'back packers' accomidation. We really do not know how they managed to open the place, it was a total death trap, no fire / smoke alarms, one fire exit at the far end of the place, no fire doors. Only one working shower for 25 people and the hot water ran out very quickly. It was only £15 per person per night, but then a hotel in the town was £25. Having seen the place I would have rather paid an extra £10.
On sunday we had lunch and went 10 pin bowling (the karting was booked out) and then in the evening I flew home. When I got back I drank some Chocolate milkshake.
Big mistake. The milk must have been off and I woke at 5:30 feeling really bad. So I've been in bed, sleeping and chatting on the laptop since.
Typical that I send a txt message to my boss telling him I'l ill on the day that people are most likely to take a sicki!!
Hope you are all well
Px