Wow... I don't even know where to begin! Yesterday I went four wheeling/mudding with some friends... now, this was my first time. So I didn't exactly know what to wear, what to bring, etc. etc. I was excited though... yay - I was going to get muddy! :)
Well, the day starts out nice, I meet Donna and Ed at their place, talked to Simon for a little bit on the phone, had breakfast/lunch on the way over to River Ranch... and once we got to the site, I even drove the ATV around with Wally... and I figured it out! Then Wally took me around, and it was a blast! After a little bit we decided we were going to go ahead and go out riding since the people meeting us weren't there yet... so we left a note and off we go!
OH.... MY..... GOSH......
Little did I know, that soon I would be gripping on for dear life, swinging back and forth and being catapulted into the air. It was really fun though, and I thought to myself... I got this, I can do this. Then, Ed gets lost. We end up in a swamp that is up to my butt sitting in the four wheeler... and we are treading water, and all of a sudden something under the water has grabbed my foot... and by grabbed, I don't mean with a hand... I mean it's more than something just brushed up against me... and it was hard, and then all of a sudden my flip flop is gone!!! And I'm screaming and laughing so hard at the same time, that no one can understand me. After we're in the swamp, for what feels like 20 minutes and we do not see any dry ground... we finally see more shallow water, so we go for that, and then we begin to people - yay!!! Civilization!! So we head for that area and ask them how to get to the swimming hole, and they're like go down there, take a right once you see the fork in the road, there's a big tree, then follow that path until you see another path.. oh dear I thought, this is not going to turn out well... the vaguest instructions EVER. We take a potty break in the woods, and then head out on the rest of the adventure... the place we wanted was sooo far away and we went over sooo many holes, bumps, rivers, ponds... I can't even begin to tell you. It was a blast though... that is, until we got stuck in a mud hole up to my stomach. I'm like "WALLY!!! YOU GOT US STUCK!!!!!!" So we had to get off, Ed had to get the pully out, get us out of the water, and THEN it wouldn't start... so Donna and I just watched them try to get this thing going for like 10 minutes. In the meantime, I have my phone with me, because I have been taking pictures to document my first mudding experience... and I've been so good with it. I had it safely tucked in my bra, so everytime I was done with it, I'd put it back. I took pics of us being stuck, of the water levels, etc. Well we get back on the trail, and we're on our way to the swimming hole.. at this time, my inner thighs are beginning to burn from squeezing them so much around the body of the ATV because I'm straddling Wally's seat, because I'm not on the seat... I'm on these bars on the back on the seat (this wasn't made to have a passenger), so in the process of going through all the bumps and holes, I'm only gripping the bars beneath my legs, and squeezing my legs so tight, around the seat in front of me, so I don't fall off. We finally get to the swimming hole, and Ed is like "Come on Brooke, come jump off the rope swing..." and I'm like nah.. and he's like oh come on, don't be chicken... so then I had to go because he dared me. So I'm being careful to take off Donna's flip flops (since the sand was so hot I was using hers), I took off my sunglasses and my hat.. and I get on the swing... all of a sudden, I let go prematurely because I remembered my phone... and then I scream "MY PHONE!!!!" and let go of the rope. Well, because I was airborne, and my BACK was facing the water, not my feet, my shirt flew up over my head and twisted within itself... so I'm still screaming when I hit the water, and I go under, swallow tons of nasty murky water, and then my shirt is up over my head, and I'm flashing everyone my bra... I'm freaking out, because I'm one of the most conservative people, and I'm trying to pull my shirt down, but it's twisted, so then I try to get my phone... and in the meantime, I'm under the water doing all this. I finally rise to the surface and Donna is like omg Brooke... needless to say, it was quite an adventure at the swimming hole... then I got out, and began to dry some, tried to lay my phone out to dry out, it's definitely dead. So then, Donna and I just hang out for a while waiting on the boys, and when the time comes to leave, I try to give her shoes back to her, and she's like nah, it's okay, you can keep them since the spikes are hurting your feet. So we are on our way back to the camp now... and this time, because Wally is more comfortable, and we're now with 2 more people (the friends we were waiting on met us at the swimming hole), he starts going a lot faster than he did on the way to the hole... and so I'm really gripping the bars. I can begin to feel blisters forming on my hands at this point, and I'm like wow, I am really sore already. My whole body was tense. Thenymy hat almost flew off my head, so I'm trying to tuck my hat on tightly, while adjusting my sungasses, and holding on for dear life. Wally, goes over a series of really intense bumps, at like 18 or 20 mph, which is fast for this thing, and all of a sudden, I am no longer on the bars... my butt is airborne, my legs spread eagle in the air, and one flip flop goes flying off into the water. I am laughing so hard at this point, just the irony of losing another shoe, this time the opposite foot, and I'm yelling at wally, remember theres a passenger on this thing!!! And he turns around to try to hear what I'm saying and doesn't see the other bump, so then I go airborne again, and the other show flies off my foot... I really have no idea how I was able to hold on in the midst of all of this, because I'm laughing so hard at this point, and holding out my feet so Donna can see I don't have shoes... AGAIN. Wow.
So, we begin on our journey again, this time, we're starting to get into deeper water, so every time we begin to tread, I am leaning back pretty far, so we can distribute the weight properly and go up when we hit the gas. Then, we go through this area of really deep water, Ed makes it through, so Wally goes behind him.. and WE GOT STUCK FOR A SECOND TIME!!! I was just getting dry and now have no shoes... and I'm walking around in this mud lol. It was such a sight, I'm sure, and yet I'm just cracking up at all of it... finally we figure out that we're lost again, and have to get back to the right path, so we do this, after Ed has to pee for the 8th time... and no that is not an exaggeration. And this time, the ground was more even, so Wally is going faster... I swear, I had more dirt on me, and I mean EVERYWHERE, than what was on the ground... it was crazy. We finally got back to the camp, I'm shoeless, phoneless, have a few more blisters and sore muscles than I went with, but in the end, tt was a blast. I yelled at myself for being an idiot about my phone, but really, it was a great day. I came home last night, got a new phone (it's pink!), and woke up this morning more sore than I have been in a LONGGGGG time. I worked muscles yesterday that don't typically feel pain... like my neck muscles (from being tense I think), the palms of my hands are bruised from gripping the bars so tightly, and the blisters on my hands HURT like you wouldn't believe. My legs are sore from squeezing them around the seat and using them to make sure I had control over my body while being airborne, my back hurts from leaning over all day on the ATV, and my stomach muscles hurt because I was laughing so much, shouting, and tightening my muscles everytime we hit a bump - and there were a lot of bumps. So, all in all, it was a great day with a great workout. I'm ready to go again... in like 2 weeks. haha. I'm attached photos of this monumental occasion!
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