it's pushing 100 degrees in Athens and the pool just isn't cutting it to beat the heat anymore; when my neighbor Patrick told me that he was getting a bunch of people together to float the Broad, clearly I couldn't say no. Why you ask?
- sun=hot, river=cold
- something in athens i've never done before
- new friends yay!!
so we loaded up the car, met/picked up some omni people, and headed to the Broad River Outpost. When we got there, the parking lot of packed and we were worried that there may not be any kayaks left, but luck was on our side and we got the last six (note to self: next time call ahead). We paid our 20, strapped the coolers onto the 'yaks, and put in the river. Apparently there are two parts of the river you can "float", the upper and the lower. According to the website, the upper portion is about 5 miles of moving water and the lower is 6.5 miles of class II beginner white water containing 7 shoals each with individual ledges and sloughs. I don't
really know what this means, but in Gabi language it means lots of opportunities for me to get stuck on rocks, scream really loud, and possibly slip (yes, i definitely fell down and went boom, but it only happened once. win). Aside from getting stuck like 8 billion times, and one flip of the kayak, things were pretty uneventful until the end when we realized that Patrick was nowhere to be found. After 20 minutes of freaking out, we see him paddling towards the pick up point. thank god. apparently he hit "30 rapids, lost the beer and sunglasses,....and his dignity". Could be worse. While waiting, I saw one guy that broke his foot, jumping off a rock. Reason #87 why i don't jump off anything but a diving board.
After a good four hours on the river, we were all starving, which leads me to another first in my life: all you can eat pizza. I pass Stevi B's almost everyday but have never EVER had the desire to go and find it a little bit (ok a lotta bit) ironic that I went with a bunch of trainers from the Omni, but seriously BEST IDEA EVER. I probably ate the equivalent of half a large pizza (and had room for a late night fro yo binge later). My OCD food and exercise tracking told me that I burned about 1300 calories kayaking (not to mention the 600 from fight club), so honestly I didn't even care that I ate more for one meal than I usually do in a day.
Operation try new things so far has been a smashing success-hooray!!
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