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Silver River State Park - Day 1

Happy Birthday Mat !!!! 18 and he wants to go camping for his birthday. That is just so awesome !!

We spent the weekend at Silver River state park camping with our son, his girlfriend, Lynnsey and her parents Jan and Roy and a couple from our life group. What an great weekend. We arrived Thursday night and were greeted by Lynnsey's parents. Then later that evening Mat and Lynnsey joined us. Mat set his tent up because he wanted to rough it and sleep in a tent. More power to him !! Friday we went to Juniper Springs to kayak. It was an overcast day and looked like we might get a little rain. The trip started out great and the river was as beautiful as I remembered. As we got down the river a ways we did start to get some rain but it didn't seem to bother any ones spirits. I did begin to notice that the river current was much faster then I remembered and we even hit a spot where Mat started to say he heard rapids. I told him there was no rapids on this river, but as we came around a corner sure enough the river had some very small rapids, (I guess you would call them ripples but for Florida they are Rapids). As we continued DW was having trouble keeping the back end of her kayak straight in the strong current. Well, as I'm sure you can guess, that eventually caught up with her. Her and I were behind the group and she was last. There was a palm tree that was coming out of the water from right to left and she needed to get to the left to go around it. Problem was as she tried to get there the back end of the kayak got away from her and she ended up going into the tree sideways. Yup, you guessed it, SPLASH !!!! Terri had rolled over in the strong current and fallen out of the kayak. Now the thing that surprised me the most was her reaction. She is normally a very calm person who does not normally freak out. Well that wasn't the case. She came up gasping and hollering, I tried to turn around and paddle back to her but the current was to strong so I jumped out of my kayak and swam/walked back to her. Once I got to her, and she realized she was OK and that everything in the kayak was safe (watertight box with keys and cell phone) she calmed down. She was a little sore, we think she hit the tree and the roots on the bottom of the river as she rolled out. Well needless to say Terri was very happy to get back to the take out spot and get off the river for the day. She was cold and wet and very tired. But even though she had her first tumble in a kayak I know that she will get right back in to it and take on the next challenge, she doesn't give up easy.

Well I will post this one since it is already a week late and I will continue with the rest of the trip later.
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