June 12, 2008

High Adventure Moab

We left Olympia Sunday morning (with Claire Passey) and visited in Caldwell Idaho with Matt and Traci White's family. Then we stayed a night at Ted and Wendy Smith's house. We are so blessed to have such great family. We have stayed with many families and have been well cared for and well fed.


We arrived in Moab Tuesday night and went Whitewater rafting on Wednesday. Rebekah, Nate and Hazel stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Welling. They went swimming and had a picnic. The rest of us went with Kenneth's Uncle Irby and his granddaughter Courtney down the Colorado River. We had a great guide and we did some fun rapids. Kenneth was the only member of out group to fall in. Abby jumped in and Sydney was pushed in by the guide. We rode in a big raft and all helped paddle, and we also had a kayak kind of craft that we took turns in. Truman and I got caught in the "all day eddy". My body is sore today from paddling our way out of the eddy.


Hazel and I took the day off today. We drove the van through a car wash, made some dinner, played playdough, had a 3 hour nap, and walked around Moab's down town. Kenneth and the kids went Jeeping with his welling family reunion.