Matthew's News and Gossip: Rafting 2004

Matthew's News and Gossip

A man with no talent, but armed with a digital camera, can waste lots of bandwidth

Saturday, May 29, 2004

 

Rafting 2004

The annual Joe and Matthew rafting trip finally happened a month after it should have done. 8 hardy souls ventured up to the Merced river, stopping only to have tea on the way (too many Englishmen on board);


3 Englishman (and a New Jersey Jew) stop for tea as demanded by tradition

... and then having an outrageous amount of food and wine at a camp with no bears.


Mass Dinner; Mass Mess, with Samores

After a night when George's snoring drowned out Stephen's and when Meredith doesn't remember what Matthew and Patrick did to her because of the Roofie we'd slipped her, it was time to get out onto the Merced river and to be very brave.


On down the river, without dropping the camera

Lots of paddling too--the fault of those who wouldn't go when the water was high in April! The other boats were filled with lots of Cal and USC non-sorority girls with their jealous boyfriends, and a bunch of Argentinians who wisely kept damn quiet when they heard 4 English guys discussing the 1986 and 2002 World Cups!

Only Stephen fell out:


Stephen is about to fall out

But here's a movie of our boat going down the rapid. (Be patient--it's a long download!)

All the pictures are here. Some photos of Matthew and Regina have "comments" from Patrick, who's looking for a job on the Tonight Show.

A fine day out, topped off by a very wierd dinner in Modesto town center where the Spin Doctors were acting out their retirement to a crowd that was even smaller than the one for the puppet show in Spinal Tap.
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