White Water Rafting!

We have had a lot of fun exploring colorado it's a great state to visit but we wanted one last adventure before heading to the midwest, so we decide to go white water rafting!  We found a half day trip on the Arkansas River through the Royal Gorge.  The trip takes off in the small western town of Canyon City which is about 45 minutes from Colorado Springs where my friend Lee lives.  So i call up Lee and tell him the plan asked if wanted to go but he had to work.  So we drive from Boulder to Lee's house.  The rafting is early the next day but we go out anyway.  His roommate manages a bar so we get some free drinks.  Then we go to this other bar where this band is playing and BBQ going on so we get some grub and beers.  After some listening to the band and beers we go back to lee's and smoke a little.
Next day we wake up real early and drive the short distance to canyon city.  I smoked on the way but Jorge was scared to smoke and hit the rapids.  We get to Raft Masters the company we were going with, sign some waivers.  They tell us to get our helmets and wet shoes.  Jorge and i get matched up with this old couple and the best guide.  The whole group gets on this buss they drive us up the mountain, past some prisons.  The guides unloaded the rafts they give us some last minute instructions.  The water is cold but refreshing.  It was a level 3/4 rapids but the water level was down a little.  The mountains were amazing, the view from the raft looking up at the royal gorge just surrounded by rock was awesome.  There was a bridge all the way at the top and our guide told us last year he was coming down the river and found a guy that was parachuting and got cut in half on the bridge cables, CRAZY.  Part of the way, there was an old railroad track right next to the water and the guide told us those tracks were older then the state of colorado.  I can't imagine someone building that through the side of a mountain that long ago.  On one set of rapids i almost pushed jorge out but no one fell out of our raft.  There was a lady in a different raft that fell out.  Jorge and i both jumped in at this one calm part to cool off.  After about 4 hours our trip was done and we all got back on the buses to go to the raft masters office.  Gave our equipment back looked at some pics they wanted us to buy for like 40 bucks, i bought a t shirt instead.  Starving after our trip we went to the small downtown of canyon city and found this pizza place we ate, it had real shity service.  Then we drove back to lee's he was just getting out of work.  We played some video games and smoked all night then the next day we have one of the longest drives of the whole trip ahead of us, 14 hours to St. Louis!