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The Journey to Tubetopia...

Braeden's eyes twinkled like blue diamonds as he looked out of the water on his mission to swim up stream like the great salmon. Just another day on the Shenandoah River in our quest for Tubetopia. What is Tubetopia you ask? Well...Tubetopia is the name of a perfect tubing experience. Just chillaxin' while floating down the river...algae free...bug free...sharp rock free...with hopefully a cool beverage in hand.

After church this morning me and a few of my friends decided to go to a bonride/cookout on the Shenandoah River. Of course...the main reason to attend was because of the tubing option. Well...due to the fact that we're girls and we take a long time to do anything we missed the 3pm deadline to go tubing. Hearts were crushed...dreams were shattered...UNTIL two nice guys offered us their tubes and to drop us off up the river. THE DREAM was SAVED...TUBETOPIA was now once again within our grasp. Oh....if we only knew what was to come. So...2 of us got into a Jeep with one guy and the other 2 got into the truck with another guy. It didn't take too long before me and my friend Keri realized we should of rode in the truck instead of the Jeep, because lets just say our driver had been pre-gaming. To those who don't know what I mean when I say 'pre-gaming'...I mean he was 2 sheets to the wind...DRUNK DRIVING PEOPLE. There is NO DRUNK DRIVING in TUBETOPIA!! As our driver drove all over the road and we prayed for God's protection...I realized this might be the last 4th of July I'll ever have. LORD...if I make it out of this vehicle with this crazy crackhead of Your Creation...I promise to recycle more and kiss babies...I promise to call my mom more and not telepathically swear at people that cut me off in traffic....the list is endless Lord.

Well...the Lord must of took me seriously and answered our prayers, cuz we JUMPED out of that Jeep safe and sound. We're FINALLY on our way to Tubetopia. Sadly, it didn't take long before the algae and dragonflies descended upon our floating paradise. If I wasn't pushing algae out of my way..I was trying to keep mating dragonflies from using my knee as a motel. The water felt great and the sun was nice and hot...but sadly I couldn't help but think Tubetopia was lost forever. Well...we finally made it back to camp..had some amazing shredded pork and little by little forgot about our disappointing adventure. But when it's all said and done...we had a great time pushing away the algae....teasing the frisky dragonflies...and most importantly watching our amazing Braeden's blue eyes sparkle like diamonds as he braved the rushing liquid elements.

It was then that I realized....Tubetopia lives in all of us...it's all how you make it. You can either choose to have a Tubetopiain' time...or bask in the disappointment of witnessing WAY TOO MUCH insect love. I choose the glass half full approach...the next TUBETOPIA experience will probably be CAVE TUBING in BELIZE in November...wish me luck as I brave the mysterious caves and avoid those shameless foreign insects...:-)