A River Runs Though It...

I needed to get out of town for a few days and so I did. I went tubing/white water rafting. It was fun until almost the end of the experience when I guess some begotten karma kicked in and I was washed away from my inflated water vessel. The rapids and current were so strong that my water shoes were ripped right off my feet! You need those shoes when in the water because the rocks are sharp and slippery. Those shoes are long gone now. Thank goodness my bathing suit was tied! Anyway, we were coming up on some fairly strong rapids and someway, somehow I was thrown from my tube. I went straight into the rapids and this is when my shoes came off. The first thing I did was grab my sunglasses so I wouldn't loose them. The current pulled me under the rapids and I picked up some major speed. I could not see underwater and had no idea where I was going until I finally surfaced. I only had enough time to get some air when I hit a rock. I tried to stop using my feet but to know avail. After hitting the rock that was impossible to grab onto I was once again trusted into the current and down another set of rapids. This time much worse than the first one. I went way under the water and as I began to panic I reminded myself that panicking causes drowning. All my years of water safety started to kick in and did my best to surface. I finally did and there was nothing to grab but I was able to swim out of the current (due to my kick-ass side stroke) and grabbed onto a big branch. From there I went to the side and climbed out of the river. I was not in good shape as I was out of breath, disoriented, and just basically freaked out. At this point I was done with it all. I am very sore and a little bruised-as hard as I kept hitting rocks I am surprised that I don't look like a victim of domestic violence in one of those Lifetime TV movie specials! I am just super sore and my feet are killing me! But I never lost my sunglasses!