The busy weekend started out with a high school football game Friday night. Gin and I attended the Blue Ridge HS vs. Travelers Rest HS game. My co-worker Nikki’s son Jerrel is a wide receiver for the Travelers Rest team. We arrived just before kick-off and parked in a church parking lot behind the school. The game is played every year as “The Battle For The Jug”, in which the winner of the game gets a large ceramic jug painted half Blue Ridge colors half Travelers Rest colors. The game itself was over within the first 10 minutes. Blue Ridge picked up 4 fumbles in a row and turned them into touchdowns within a few plays each. Travelers Rest was facing a 28-0 score with 8 minutes left in the first half. They managed to pull together enough to score one touch down before half time but that was too little too late. The Blue Ridge team was dominating from the beginning. Jerrel played well, but was no match for the speed of the Blue Ridge defense. We did enjoy sitting with Nikki and hearing her yell at people for one reason or another.
Saturday we dropped off the lawn mower at Patrick’s house for his use. After visiting with Jessica for a few minutes we went to the mall to check out the sporting supply stores. Saturday night we attended the Jonathan Byrd concert at the Unitarian church in Greenville. There were about 30 people in attendance in the small social hall for the show. He started out good with a few brain farts where he forgot his place on a few songs. He sang our favorite Matt Fockler tune and several JB classics.The last song of the night was a tribute to the one person who never receives any recognition for the hard work at festivals and fairs, the “Porta-Potty-Man”. We laughed so hard we had tears. The lyrics were cleverly crafted to utilize every pun and innuendo known to man. We made it home around 11pm and were in bed by 11:30 knowing we had an early day planned for Sunday.
Sunday we were up by 5am and out of the house around 6:30 headed for the western NC Mountains and a rafting trip. We made it to the Appalachian Rivers Rafting Co. around 9am and met up with Caris, Thomas and his family plus several co-workers of mine. Jon Leuschel provides a free guided trip down the Nantahala River every year for family and friends. We loaded up a trailer full of rafts and put-in around 10:30. The weather was sunny and clear with temps in the mid 70’s. The water was like ice but eventually became comfortably numb. John Hahn guided a raft with his wife Debbie, Gin, Nikki Dodd and yours-truly. We pulled off several times for breaks and stretching along the way. The entire trip took us about 3 hours to complete. At the end of the run is Little Wesser Falls which drops off pretty fast and rough. I was thrown to the floor of our raft when we hit the bottom of the falls (no damage done). After all the rafts were put away Gin and I joined my co-workers for a meal at the River’s End Café.
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