A Few More Pics

So, are you people bored yet? I don't know if you still want to see these pictures or not, but like the poor guests who aren't allowed to leave until ALL the slides are shown, here you are!! Oh, wait, don't click the back button! There's just a few more.. really!

Anyway, here is a couple of pictures of some of the rapids we were on. The first is actually on the first day, and the second one is called Lava Falls. It is the final big rapid that we ran on the last day, just before the end of the trip. That last one was great! It may not look like all that much there, but when you're on the raft, it is really something else.

Here's some Bighorn sheep that we saw along the side of the river. We actually saw a lot of them on this trip, and I had never seen Bighorn anywhere in the Canyon before. They weren't all that shy..

On the last day (it was a Sunday), the guides read a beautiful poem called the "Boatman's Prayer". Unfortunately, I can't find the text of it anywhere on the Internet, but it was very touching. It was basically how the boatman knows that he is not perfect, but he tries to do what's right, and every day in seeing the beauty that surrounds him, he knows that God is there and loves him nonetheless.

Anyway, on the last day, after our big run of Lava Falls, we sailed a bit further down the river to our pick up point. We actually got taken out by helicopter up out of the Canyon to the North Rim, where caught a plane back to the car.

After it was all over, it felt kind of weird getting back in the car, since we had been away from "civilization" for so long (well, 6 days anyway). It was like waking up from a good dream and going... aw, darn! Oh well, we still had some fun to come.. More pics later!