Snake River Rafting!

We spent last weekend on the Snake River with the majority of Ryan's family, my sister Mandy and her husband's family, and my Aunt Karen and Uncle Dee came also!! We were so excited that they were able to come with us (thanks for coming!!!). We had a great time. The water was higher than it has been for 15 years and the rapids were incredible. We had two class 4 rapids and lots of smaller ones. Ryan looks forward to this trip every year so he was beyond excited that the water was so high. Ryan's nephew Shane took some great pictures of us going down, I posted a few here, but he has a website that has all of them (picasaweb.google.com/thompshane/RiverRafting2008) Here are a couple of my favorites....
If you notice off the left side... Kelsy was headed in, they weren't able to catch her for awhile and she was freezing by the time we got to the boat dock. (Kelsy ended up in the water several more times so don't worry about her getting scared!)
This is our first trip down the river. Mandy's leg is flying and our faces are looking good!!!!
This is my absolute favorite picture ... Look at Whitney's face right in the middle of the raft. That is how you feel headed into that first drop!! It was so much fun.

We had so much fun, we flipped a raft, popped two rafts, and lost a lot of paddles, but everyone came home safe and enjoyed themselves! Now Ryan is just worried about being disappointed for the next 15 years until the water is this high again. I on the other hand will be just fine with the calmer waters!!