TUBING SCARE

 

PEGGY-CAT-TERI –ME AND SOME FRIENDS WENT TUBING ON THE PEACE RIVER. TUBING IS SIMPLY FLOATING DOWN A RIVER ON A CAR TIRE TUBE

FOR A DAY OR HALF DAY. SOMEONE PICKS YOU UP AT THE OTHER END.

YOU TIE ONETUBE TO SOMEONE AND PUT ACOOLER IN IT.

TERIAND CAT WAS ABOUT SIX OR SEVEN  AND EACH HAD THEIR OWN TUBES. WE STAYED CLOSE AS A GROUP.

  

THE SPEED OF THE WATER PICKED UP AT THIS ONE SPOT  PEGGY AND I WAS ABOUT 10-15 FEET AHEAD OF CAT. CAT TRIED TO LOOK BACK AND FELL OUT OF HER TUBE. PEGGY AND I SAW HER FALL OUT AND STARTED  TRYING TO GET  TO HER  BUT THE CURRANT WOULD NOT LET US.   CAT HAD GONE UNDER AND WE WAS SCARED BEYOND BELIEF. PEG WAS CRYING AND YELLING.

 

THEN CAT  BROKE THE TOP OF THE WATER  GOT A BREATH AND SMILED.

I TOLD PEGGY DON’T YOU DARE LET HER KNOW HOW SCARED WE WAS

 

CAT SAID THE CURRANT PULLED HER DOWN TOWARD A OLD TREE      SHE COULD NOT TURN AND COME UP         SO SHE SAID I JUST SWAM UNDER THE TREE AND CAME UP THE OTHER SIDE

 

SHE SEEN NO PROBLEM

 

PEGGY AND I THANKED GOD FOR SWIMMING LESSONS