MEMORIAL WEEKEND... tubing the brazos

so this past weekend we decided to float does the river with some friends of ours. Our family of 5 (Ash had to work) Peggys family of 6 plus Kendra and Angies family of 6 plus a friend all met up at 7 am to drive out to the river.

We were warned to get there early because the tubes would be sold out by 11:00. We got there around 10 and there were tubes for everyone. :) after picking out the vessel each person wanted to set sail on there was a little chaos getting everyone to the river.... but with a group as large as ours, how could there not be :)

finally all 19 of us and 3 ice chests were in water. We were told the trip would take about and hour and a half maybe two hours. We soon found out that it would take that long.... if there was movement in the river. at times... we would just float without moving at all!

about half an hour later (and 6 feet down river) we got this wonderful idea to start tieing the tubes together.... so we made one HUGE island. was fun.... very relaxing. lots of conversation and laughs.

there were only two very very very small sets of rapids... if you can call them that. (missed those guys! :)

at one point we were able to stop along the way and everyone who wanted to was able to swing off a rope attached to a tree into the river. The kids loved it. Amy Aaron and Austin did it about 20 times each.

about this time we had been on the river for a few hours and I guess Aaron was just about to go crazy with the pace so that little moose got out of his tube and went to the front of our 'island' and started pulling us down the river. We went faster with him pulling that we did even through the 'rapids'.

along the way we played little games like 'toss grapes into peoples mouths', eye spy, and the girls that cheered (4 of them) all tried to fly on the tubes. AMY STAYED UP!!! :)

finally we reached the point where canoes and tubes get out. it was sandy. we were wet. lol not a pleasant feeling. but it was fun. a relaxing kind of fun.... that is something I am so not used to.

The entire trip down the river took us 5 and a half hours. We loved it but will for sure go to the Guadalupe next time.... we like things a little faster paced! :)

After we stopped at a MEXICAN place for dinner... YUM! then decided that we were not quite ready to end the day. So the whole group came over to the house to jump in the pool and hang out. the adults played darts till about 3 am so lots of the little girls had passed out and we wound up with a slumber party :)