Work Adventures

Last night I arrived home from yet another business trip but this one was a little different.  We had meetings, I gave a small presentation (I was supposed to give another one but apparently by boss forgot), we met with some of our affiliates, did the usual amount of schmoozing and so on.  The thing that made this trip even more different is that we went white water rafting!

It was awesome.  We were in Charlotte, NC and they have a competition grade manmade “river” with some pretty crazy rapids.  I think some were considered class4-5?  Anyway, we had a blast.  I went with 5 of my co-workers, 4 girls 2 guys.  Our guide was straight out of surfer dude school and managed to have me laughing pretty much through the entirety of our instructional session.  I later found out that he is an EMT/ski guide/rafting guide and a slew of other fun professions.

We managed to get through most of the rapids pretty smoothly but one of them was a doozy!  From what I am told, one of my co-worker and I fell out of the boat in perfect synchrony…this is when I was wishing I paid more attention to the instructional speech.  I managed to swim myself out of the rapid and into what they call an Eddie-where the water is running reverse to the current?  Anyway, the hard part was getting back into the boat.  I was no help in this regard given that I have the arm strength of a 2-year-old.  Again, from what I am told, my boss grabbed me and threw me into the boat like a rag doll…apparently it was quite funny to watch.  All I know was that I was stuck in the bottom of the boat with 6 people laughing at me with me laughing so hard I couldn’t move.  It was awesome.

I finished up the trip with another graceful move where I managed to fall face flat into the boat when I was trying to exit.  This prompted our guide to ask me if my middle name was Grace. 

All in all it was a great trip.  I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a little adventure.  Here is the link.

Also, go here to see photos…we are photos #22 and #23.