Rafting

One of our activities during our trip to western North Carolina earlier in the month was white water rafting.  It turned out to be a perfect beginner's rafting trip ... with lots of floating and enjoying the scenery, a bit of paddling, and short bursts of stuff like this:

Our guide was great.  He quickly realized that we were fun and cooperative and fairly fearless, and he did what he could to spice up our trip ... i.e., adding a couple of rock-smacking 360s that spun our boat completely around.  (no photos of this, darn it!)

I would do this again without hesitation.  We had so much fun!