The Randi and Heather show: On down the river we go!

Randi & Heather

We are laughing...

Here's to summer... I'll drink to that.

Heather

Shay

Randi & Heather

Randi

Randi hanging on for her life...

Randi River Warrior

Heather

We are real strong

Randi & Heather

Randi Riverfied

Kelly

Kelly having a little snack.

Nothing like a river cold beer.

Kelly

Kelly

Randi & Heather

Randi & Heather

River Tigers for the camera...

Hungry river tigers

Randi and I had so much fun on the river Monday that we decided to go Wednesday too. This time it was a much smaller group. It still took us 9 hours to float all the way down from the falls base. The great thing about Snoqualmie is 98% of the way is sunny. I usually float the Skykomish but it's gotta be extremely hot to be comfortable all the way down. It is definitely a shorter float though. The high light of the float was the rope swing Randi and I went off twosies. It's all fun and games till some one gets hurt. Randi landed on her ear/head. Not good. She was not doing well. It was a long float down from the rope Swing. We took it easy the rest of the trip.

Snoqualmie float

Marcus, Joshua & Heather

Chris Joshua, Heather & Randi

& Megan enjoying a spicy bloody mary

Derrek, Chris, Scott, Kirk & Marcus

Christopher

Megan & Heather

Manny & Joshua

Getting ready to push off...

Manny is really excited about this float...

Heather & Randi

Megan, Heather & Randi

The Oxford Girls

Kirk & Cody

Heather & Randi

Kelly

Scott & Randi

Scott catching a beer!

Heather & Megan enjoying a jello shot...

Joshua, Heather, Marcus, Chris, Scott & Kirk

Heather & Marcus

Heather, Megan & Randi

Bottoms up!

Randi missed her mouth I think.

Chris on the rope swing

Derrek

Heather on the rope swing

I think the water must have slapped me silly.

Randi & Scott

Randi & Heather happy to be alive after

the swim across the river.

Water is funny!!!!

Heather & Chris

Today is good!

Joshua on the rope swing.

Scott

Heather & Joshua

Randi & Heather

Joshua

Cody, Heather & Kirk

Heather smooching Manny.

Scott & Randi

Marcus, Randi, Cody & Kirk

Heather & Derrek

Chris

Heather & Chris

Marcus

Kirk & Heather

Randi

Randi

The group

Chris & Joshua

Oh life on the river...

Joshua

Joshua & Manny

Kirk

Scott

There is just no better way to beat the heat than floating the river! Joshua and I invited about 20 people over for breakfast before we met at the bottom of Snoqualmie falls. Another great Monday to go down in the history books! We were off to a perfect start every one had their floats, coolers were full of beverages and snacks, we were properly rubbed down with sun screen, I was happily taking pictures with my water proof camera, all was good... The only thing every one forgot, was me! There I was still on the river bank while every one was happily floating away. Randi bless her heart yelled "Heather jump on" and away we went two people on a on man tube. Every thing was fine for about 10 seconds when we hit our first of many rapids. Our tube flipped, Randi landed on a rock and I got sucked down with nothing but my hat to hold on to through the first five rapids or so till I caught up with the big tube. Kirk grabbed my hand but not before we hit another set of rapids. The only problem now was I was pinned underneath the tube with 6 passengers on it. Chris and Kirk finally got me up on the the big tube and to safety. Can I just say being pinned between a raft with 6 + people on it and rocks while swiftly going down rapids is not something I recommend for any one. Thank God for hard lemon aid and jello shots. We stopped at the first sand bar to pumped up rafts and hung out in the sun and sand for a while. Finally we pushed off again. The next sand bar we reached with out any trouble. This one had a great rope swing across the river. It was a grueling swim but so worth it. We spent some time on the rope swing, enjoyed a few jello shots and sandwiches and then continued on. I have been told that it should only take about 4 or 5 hours to float the Snoqualmie. I think we did it in 10. Must have been the hour long pit stops. By the time we got to the end we were freezing cold, water logged, starving and exhausted!