POST REWRITE PARTY - WHITE WATER RAFTING

I recently completed rewrites on my new verse novel, FORGET ME NOT (working title) and got up from my chair (where I was starting to become permanently attached) to go on a white water rafting vacation with my family at the Royal Gorge in Colorado. Every now and then a writer just needs to get out and do something adventurous.  The water levels in the Gorge were dangerously high, so the park service closed it down, but we saw plenty of white water upstream.  One of the boats capsized. Luckily, ours stayed afloat and I never fell out. My husband and kids jumped out, but that's another story.



Did I mention that the water was freezing?  Even with a wetsuit, I lost all feeling from the knees down and couldn't move my toes for an hour after we got out of the water.  Fortunately, we spent the afternoon on a zip line tour with two crazy guides named Nate and Dave. Three hours, nine zip lines. I slept well that night.


Does this helmet make my head look fat?

Here are our crazy guides, Dave...

and Nate.

Maybe I'll put them in a book one day. Wouldn't that be fun?

Now I'm back home and working on another verse novel. Perhaps I'll write a White Water Sonnet:)