Tubing the Dan River
For awhile there, the husband and I spent Labor Day weekends doing something really, super exciting: moving.
Luckily, that tradition bit the dust when we moved into our house. Thank goodness- I do not suggest a hot summer day for moving umpteen heavy boxes up and down multiple flights of stairs. Not to mention missing out on holiday weekend fun.
This Labor Day weekend, we celebrated a friend’s 30th birthday tubing down the Dan River, in the uppermost parts of NC. {I had no idea we were driving almost all the way to the Virginia border when I signed up for this.}
Ready for the worst SoS pictures ever? Here you go:
Stopping for lunch. Might I suggest sealable plastic bags to everyone next time? The husband and I were the only ones with dry bread on our sandwiches.
The water was cold, but the air was hot- it ended up being the perfect combination for lazily floating down the river. We only got our butts caught on rocks a few times, but eventually figured out if all 10 of us linked together in an giant tube amoeba, we could get through without standing up.
Speaking of amoebas, apparently there are rumors of brain-sucking, deadly amoebas in this river…good thing my head didn’t need to go under water. 
I didn’t catch a picture, but a group of crazies scaled this rock wall and climbed into the cave. I’m not going to lie, I kind of wanted to do it too. {I didn’t, no worries. Although remind me to tell you the story one day of how I got stuck in a narrow, sideways gap in a muddy, underground cave for several hours some day.}
So our Labor Day started with a relaxing tube down the river {ok, semi-relaxing- I spent the whole time trying not to fall through the center of the tube. The coolers got top priority for the smaller tubes} and will more than likely definitely be ending with football.
PS If you want to learn to take beautiful pictures like these, just pack a reallllly old camera in a plastic baggie, then store it in a cooler full of ice. When you bring it out into 90+ degree weather, you’ll achieve the beautiful, fogged-over look.
