Every year we do this weekend trip where we go river rafting on the American River with our friends. This year there were 9 of us on Sat and 11 of us on Sunday. We ride rapids named "Satans' s Cesspool" or "Troublemaker" or "Bumping Rock" and try to stay in the raft through all the splashing.

This year we had 3 "newbies" on our trip- Bill, David and George. They had never been river rafting before so we made sure they had a chance to be "hood ornaments" at the front of the boat. Here's a great pic of David and Bill as our hood ornaments:

The temperatures on the river run about 90 to 100 degrees in July, so its quite refreshing to take a dip in the river (or get tossed out!) and the folks at Riverrunners feed you lots of food, all the time so its quite a great weekend getaway!