Wild Ragin Water Weekend (aka Girls Retreat)

We had such a great weekend!!! Jeneal, Kelli, Jhalore....Thank you for coming to see us and for being such good sports! You all have such great qualities and are so much fun! We had a girls retreat weekend and thanks to Meredith we all ate like Queens. We ran the river on Saturday and it was so beautiful. We were hoping to have a little easier time with the white water rapids as you can see in the second slide show below we hit some pretty wild waters but with the combined skills and agility of each of us we faired pretty well. In order to prepare ourselves and get tough we decided that every time someone gave you a compliment you had to reply "up yours" which was really hard for Jeneal. She really just wanted to reply a simple and heartfelt "Thank you", but we wouldn't let her. Luckily she and Mom were always the first to hop out of the boat and pick it up and move it when we drug bottom. When we would tire out and didn't think we could press on Amy was in charge of the pep talk. It was a very short. thoughtful and moving speech that got us going again. It consisted of yelling "Tallyhoe Bitches!!!". Every time someone or something would go overboard Jhalore would rescue dive into the water, swim to the bottom and retrieve whatever had fallen. Due to Kelli's vast knowledge of the wild and her hard core thirst for speed we beat the pick up time by 1 1/2 hours so we had to plenty of time to rest and re-hydrate with power drinks at the dock when we were through. I didn't tell you guys this but Doug and Ray ran ahead of us so they could take pictures for the slide show and I think they really captured our best moments well. Thank you Doug...Thank you Ray!
Mere, thanks again for all of your hard work and I love you all!!!!!