This is Scott; Mom wanted me to write about rafting. Reluctantly i agreed but all you readers will have to pardon any grammatical errors 'cause on my blog i don't do any of this grammar nonsense. that's all for tools. anyway. yeah i got to go rafting on the nile. it was one of the things i wanted to do most whilst (what a fun word) in Uganda. we went up to Phil and Emily's house and stayed with them for the sole purpose of me getting to raft. they live in Jinja by the way which is where the rafting starts. i'll skip over the details of being in Jinja cause i'm sure my mom can fill that in. so as for saturday (rafting day) we got started about 8:30 driving to the rafting place. of course we had to wait there for like an hour to actually begin. then when we finally drove to the put in, we still had to raft about 4 km whilst learning how to paddle, swim, float and other such extremely important but totally boring necessities. it was all totally worth it though once we got to the rapids. there are twelve major rapids that we cover with Nile River Explorers company, all class 4 and 5 . Phil and I specifically profiled all the other rafters to find the most hardcore group. we got what we wanted too. this included being set up with the craziest guide out there, a native Ugandan gymnast named Nathan. he made sure we hit all the rapids in the way most likely to frighten us or better yet, flip us (we only flipped twice, both caused intentionally by our guide). my favorite rapids were two class fives, one quite long one called silverback which was straight up long and challenging and another called overtime which is a rapid leading up to a 4 meter waterfall which we completed successfully. the whole trip was extremely cold. it was just a cloudy cold day. the rafting was the best though; i doubt any rafting trip in my life will compare.
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