Tevey’s Got Connections {Wednesday, Feb 25}

Rev. Tevey is a really cool guy. In my opinion, he looks like an interesting mix of George Bush and my Grandpa Blake. Haha. Grandpa, he reminds me of you! Anyway, his son happens to be a white water rafting guide…. And got us some pretty sweet connections for our day off today. Yes Mom, we went white water rafting. It was awesome. I went with one of the guys in a two person kayak deal. Basically, if I wasn’t screaming I was hysterically laughing. My raft probably struggled the most (shocking, I know). We were frequently going into the rapids backwards or sideways… and by some miracle never flipped the entire day. Half way through we pulled our rafts up on shore…. and were given a juice box and a bag of chips. It seemed pretty random to me, but hey I took the break! After that, we each got to jump into the river and swim down a small drop. They had the guides all around us, it was very safe and so fun! After we finished rafting, we did a little zip-lining. It was pretty intense. Truth be told, I was freaking out. The zip line went over half African mountain bush, half lemon orchards. We had to climb this tower at the top of a mountain where our guide would clip you onto the line and scream 3…2….1…ZERO! When I got to the top of the tower I made our guide triple check my belts and had a death grip on his shoulder. From the bottom of the mountain they heard … Renee laughing…. Guide yelling 3 …. Renee screaming….. 2 and 1 covered with the scream… and there I went. I decided up front I was doing “no hands” and everyone says it was Peter Pan slash bird the whole way down. They’re still laughing at me. Anyway, my favorite part of the day was getting a caffé latte at the end. I felt totally spoiled.