Thursday, June 25, 2009

Bachelor Party

Jim is the best man for his friend Kevin's wedding in October. He planned a white water rafting trip in West Virginia on the New River for the bachelor party.

They had a cabin for Thursday night before they headed rafting:

They rafted on Friday, camped along the river Friday night, and rafted again on Saturday. The river was running at 3 times the volume as normal from lots of rain. The river was above flood stage and into the forest on the shore:

Here are some pictures of them rafting:

They stayed back in the cabin again on Saturday night after the 2-day white water rafting trip.

Near the cabin was a lake with all kinds of slides, zip lines, etc. Here is Mike Pozsgay going down a zip line into the lake:

Before they headed out on Sunday they drove to the New River Gorge Bridge, the highest vehicular bridge in the western hemisphere. (There is a pedestrian bridge in Colorado that is higher). The bridge is over 950 feet above the bottom of the gorge. Here are Jim and Kevin with the bridge in the background:

The old bridge can be seen in this photo down below. It consisted of 8 miles of winding switch-back roadways before the new bridge was built:

Another view of the gorge from near the bridge:


Colleen was so excited to see Jim come home because she missed him a lot. She made some nice cup cakes to welcome him back:

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