Believe it or not, but sitting for many hours straight in an RV is quite tiring. Our first full day of our trip featured a mixed bag of activities. We started the day with some rafting on the Colorado River. We opted for a more gentle ride over a more strenuous experience. Recent rains churned the river into something like chocolate milk, making the water run both higher and faster, which I’m sure you can imagine, thrilled the boys.
Pairing up strangers into these large rafts must be a bit like planning the dinner seating arrangements for a wedding. You never really know who’s going to match up with whom and who’s got to sit with the one buzzkill in all of Colorado.
Our guide was Alyssa, a very sweet 19-year-old full-of-fantastic stories she’d make up on the spot for Evan and Ryan. We were joined by Mike and Fancy Dee from Oklahoma. At the start of the trip, Alyssa put the vote to the group: dry ride or wet ride? In other words, did we want to keep things chill, or did we want to horse around and have water fights within our raft and with other rafts? You can probably tell where this is going.
The vote was 4 to 2, but the vote always defers to dry. So, it turned out that the Cookes were sitting at the wedding table with Fancy Dee, the only whitewater rafting buzzkill on the Colorado River. Did I mention that it was at least 987 degrees that day?
Afterwards, we headed back to our RV park for some much needed cooling off at the pool and what I like to call “Me Time.” That’s what the camp counselors at Camp Mosey Wood in the Poconos of Pennsylvania called the two-hour post-lunch break when all the campers got to do pretty much whatever we wanted . . . within the confines of our platform tents. I like to think that for the wonderful Camp Mosey Wood counselors, “Me Time” was more like an extended happy hour.