And the River Won!

Little Cahaba River

When things get a little boring around the 'Ham, you can always count on someone to think of a great plan or as we like to call them "an activity" to do. Last Saturday was one of those days, but not too worry, the day was saved with the idea to brave the river. This river would be the "Cahaba", and for all of you, yes it does flow near Selma. In high school we would buy fun rafts and pack a cooler and enjoy a lazy day on the river. There were several events which included the traditional mud fight and of course the initial jump off the bridge for the crazy ones.

Well, although it is the same river, I have to say things are much more "advanced" (take that lightly). If you take a short drive down to Montevollo, AL and go a little further, you will end up in Limestone park. The river tubing was previously referred to as BullDog Bend, but now I guess its just the "Cahaba". The crazy back roads take you to an opening where usually there are several cars parked and just beyond a sketchy shack with a woman taking names of who is going on the river. I'm not really sure, but I think that it was a waver or something. Anyway once you pay for a tube the really nice "good ole boys" will drive you down to the river in the back of an old pick up and drop you off. From there you are on your own.

This time on the river, the brave ones were KK, Bethany, Sparks, Alex(Katie) Conway and myself. We were going pretty good, after some assistance getting in the river. We had even gone down the first two rapids great but on the third rapid that's when things went wrong. I decided to go down first, being the veteran, but that was a mistake. I lost one of my shoes and then realized that the rocks were scraping my back. At this point by reflex, I pushed down on my feet to raise my back and that's when it happened. Yeah i scraped my foot, or maybe ripped my foot on a rock is more of the term. I wasn't really sure what had happened, but at the end i had a pretty bloody battle wound.

I am very luck to have a doctor in the fam so of course Dr. Logan took care of me. He put 6 stitches in my foot, or Statches as Lola called them. The pictures below might be a little graphic but it really is not that bad. So in the end, the river did win, but there will be a rematch!