Soaking the Colorado River.

Soaking the Colorado River.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Everyone loves an adlib's

This post is a little different. You get to help by filling in certain things and making it funny. I will put the real words next to the line so you can read the real story. Have fun with it go crazy! If you feel like acctually doing this feel free to post them or email them to me at marcclimb@hotmail.com if not enjoy the story.

This weekend myself and a few of my (adjective, kayaking)____________ buddies and I went down to (adjective, kayak)_________ West Water Canyon near (placew, Moab, UT)_________. We left Salt Lake City on friday with (number, 4)________ kayaks on my car. The (noun, rain)___________ was coming down like mad all the way accross the state. We were seeing (noun, creeks)________ we had never imagined in places we never (verb, expected)__________.The (noun,rain)_________ cleared and we put on to the (noun, river)_________ around 8 in the evening and (adjective, floated)_________ the first few miles by the full (noun, moon)__________. With the (noun, moon light)________ shining of the water we pulled into (place, camp)________ at about 9:30 and the (noun, rain)__________ quickly sent us to bed. (A side note it rainned so hard that it was the first time im my river running career that I actually slept in a tent) When we went to (place, sleep)_________ the river was flowing at (number, 5,600)_______ CFS or cubic feet persecond. When whe (adjective, stirred)________ from our sleep we found that the (noun,river)________ had risen (number, 5)______ feet over night and was now running at (number, 13,500)_______ CFS.
As we (adjective, floated)________down towards the (noun,rapids)__________ we were a little (adjective, nervous)________ about the (adjective, ginormous)_________ (noun plural, logs)______ that we could get (adjective, destroyed)__________ by in the rapids. All went well throught the first set of (noun plural, rapids)_________. I (adjective, paddled)________ out ahead to get below the most dangerous rapid, (human body part, skull)________ rapid. All of the (plural noun, Rafts)_____ had very (adjective, binball)________ runs throught (human body part, skull)______ rapid. Then came the (group of people, kayakers)_______ first was (Person, Smity)______ who came through (adjective, flawlessly)__________ next was (person, Nate)______ followed by (person, Jake)_______. (person, Stucki)_____ was suposed to be next. His (mode of transportaion, kayak)_________ came throught without him in it. He had to (adjective, pull)_______ his (type of skirt, spray)_______ skirt and swam. It took about an hour to get him (adjective, rescued)________. We all (type of dance move, paddled)________ our way down the rest of the (plural noun, rapids)________ and had to (adjective, save)________ (person, Stucki)_______ one more time. All in all we had one great (noun, trip)________ the (noun, weather) turned out to be amazing. We had some adventures with the (type of vehicles, cars)_______ when trying to run the shuttles. It was a great Trip. (type of exhaltation, YEEEEEHAA)________!

3 comments:

tolman said...

Way jealous that sounded like a cool trip I cant wait tell I get good enough to go withy you and your friends , you tell us what days to schedule the flight and will do , glad to hear your coming to the city will see you next week end.

Angela said...

Marcus, that doesn't even sound like a true story (I know it is), but HOLY COW!! That is crazy! I am really surprised that nothing bad happened. I feel like out of all the elements, water is the least predictable and the most powerful. I still haven't graduated from pools.

Mary Grace said...

marcus that is sweet! thanks for the marathon congrats! you beat me to the post! and that trip sounded so cool! love the ad libs! you are a funny kid! sorry we forget to give you the net and tie downs from my trunk..next time, eh?