Josh
and I are going on another grand
whitewater rafting adventure and we would like for you to join us.
Time
and driving on Friday
We
will be leaving the Meadows at 2:00 pm on
Friday April 24th and will drive 735 kilometers (457 miles) to a hotel
in
Chattanooga, Tennessee. We will get there about 12 midnight, God
willing, and
will have plenty of time to get some quality sleep! (not like last
year!).
Saturday,
breakfast, rafting, eating, driving back
Saturday
morning we will eat a free breakfast
at the hotel and then go rafting at 10:00 am!
We
will raft the middle section of the Ocoee
River at 10 am.
Afterwards
we will stop and eat before driving
back to St. Louis.
Driving
and fun; be back by midnight Saturday
This
is a tough trip, lots of miles in a van,
but I promise you that if you come with us you will have a great time!!
Our
goal is to have everyone back home
by midnight on Saturday so you will have all day Sunday to recover and
study!
PHOEBE
IS GETTING BAPTIZED SUNDAY AT FIRST
ASSEMBLY CHURCH!
Alan
will pick people up for church at 9:00 am
at University Meadows clubhouse.
Last
year we
had some mechanical issues with our vehicles so we are renting 2
12-passenger
vans for this trip. Because of this it will cost $110 per person for
this
adventure. We would like a deposit of $60 per person by April 18th, the
other
$50 when we leave. We would like an answer to this invitation as soon
as
possible, we need to be sure we can take everyone who wants to go!
We
will have
2 drivers in each van. The outfitter we use is Cascade Outdoors, they
did a
great job for us last year. A couple of outfitters have videos of the
Middle
Ocoee you can watch:www.outlandexpeditions.com and www.noc.com/
Please
pack lightly, hopefully you can get what
you need in a backpack.
You
will need to bring a towel, and dry clothes
to change into after the rafting.
You
need to wear closed-toe shoes while
rafting, sandals won't protect your feet like athletic shoes will. You
don't
need a bathing suit, just wear some shorts and a tee shirt or something like
that.(If it is cool when we go rafting the outfitter will provide us
with rain
jackets).
Most
of us
will meet at the clubhouse at the Meadows about 2 in the afternoon
Friday. Josh
will coordinate picking up Zar and the other Lindenwood and St. Charles
people,
then they will meet up with us at the Meadows.
we
will stop
for dinner around 6 in Paducah, Kentucky.
We
will stop
at a mall that has a Chinese fast-food restaurant, a Chick-fil-a,
outside the
mall is a Taco Bell, a Pizza Hut, a Wendy's, and a Steak'n'shake. We
will
provide snacks and water for the drive, also.
You
may pay
for meals and souvenirs with your credit or debit card, but
please bring
cash (or a check if you can't get cash) to pay us the $110 if you
haven't paid
us yet.( Josh and I have all the expenses on our credit cards
and we need
to pay them off...) Please bring an extra $5 or $10 to tip our
whitewater rafting
guides, that is how they make most of their money.