fh_trips | Kellerman's Resort, Tuesday Morning and Afternoon, October 13th

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Kellerman's Resort, Tuesday Morning and Afternoon, October 13th

The weather at Kellerman's continued to be favourable, as the autumn sun shone down on the fields and streams of the area. The staff of the resort were busy but happy to help, bustling through the corridors and courtyard.

The boards outside were advertising a white water rafting trip today, for anyone willing to go out and risk the rapids; for the less adventurous, a trip to see the Cascade Falls might just do the trick.

[[ Cottage and Room List | Rooms | Activities Barn | Indoor Activities | Outdoor Activities | White Water Rafting | Cascade Falls | OOC | OCD up! ]]

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Dinah waded into the water, shivering a little as the cold penetrated her boots, and then grinned back at Jaime. "Kind of like Turtle, I'd guess-- what's Brenda want to be when she's done? MIT, or Harvard grad? I'll be happy just to get into New Gotham U."

"Law school," Jaime grinned. "And she'll do it, too." Brenda was that awesome.

"Cool. Does she know what kind of law yet?" Dinah hopped into the raft once they got it afloat, and grinned, waiting for everyone else to get in. "Maybe politics? Governor of Texas?"

"Dictator of Earth, maybe," Jaime laughed as he pushed the raft away from the shore and scrambled in. "For Brenda, the sky's the limit. And maybe not even that."

Dinah snickered. "So she'll be getting perfect SAT scores in addition to having the current Governor of Texas write her recommendation letter then, hunh? Good for her. We need more female planetary dictators." She dipped her paddled into the water, and carefully stroked backward, shoulders back, and then pushed the raft away from a small rock. "This part's pretty nice. Quiet."

"So if you're going to fall out this is a good spot for it?" Jaime teased.

"Dream on," Dinah threw over her shoulder with a grin. "I'm totally staying in the raft for this trip. That water is too cold--" She trailed her fingers in the water, and shivered. "Totally aside from the fast and deep part." The river was becoming more of a river now, less of a stream, bubbles rising up around the bank of rocks they were passing. "You could get dragged along on the side, if you want to find out?"

"Gee... that's an awfully tempting offer, but... maybe you should go first?"

Dinah snickered, about to comment, then said, "Whoa," as the raft dropped a couple feet suddenly, sending a splash of water into her face. She tightened her hands on her paddle and spluttered. Now they were zooming along.

"Yeah. I'm glad you're in the front," Jaime laughed as he braced himself against the side of the raft as they bounced this way and that.

Dinah threw a laughing glared over her shoulder again, then saw what was coming up, eyes widening in glee. "Hang on! It's about to get bumpy!"

And the raft started to swerve and judder as it hit the rapids, rising and falling as the white water rushed along, a roar in their ears. Dinah and the raft guide were busy stroking away from the side of the river, then back away from a couple really rough spots, too preoccupied to realize she was chuckling in delight the whole time.

"You sound way too excited about that," Jaime accused with a laugh right before they hit the rapids.

"Woooo!" was Dinah's response as the raft spun halfway around, so that it was rushing sideways down the river. "Just excited enough!"

"Adrenaline junkie," Jaime accused with a laugh.

"Yes!" Dinah shouted back, either in answer to that accusation, or in reaction to getting the raft turned the right away. Then she beamed back at him. "Tell me this isn't fun!"

"This isn't fun," Jaime yelled back.

He sounded absolutely unconvincing.

"HA!"

Okay, no, no almost bouncing out of the boat! Dinah grabbed the edge of the raft and hung on as they started

to

SLIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE

down a portion of white-water, pretty much just yelling inarticulatelly at this point.

Jaime had instinctively started to reach for her to keep her from bouncing out of the boat, but then they were going way too fast and he had to grab onto one of the raft handles.

"Crazy!" he accused again, but he was laughing. Apparently she wasn't the only one having fun.

"Good crazy!"

Dinah stroked a bit more as the river guide told them to pull towards the center of the river, then settled down for a quiet bit, getting her breath back. "This is the kind of job I could stand to have full-time, maybe." Well, no. But still! For a vacation, it was perfect.

"What about all that detecting and stuff?" Jaime asked with a teasing smirk.

Dinah sighed long-sufferingly. "Oh, sure, be logical." She grinned at him. "Yeah, I'd probably last six months at a place like this. But it's five months longer than I'd last in an office." She grinned, peering down the river. "Looks rough up ahead again.... Would you pick this over dentistry?" She grinned. "Seriously, now."

"No one falls out of the raft and gets hypothermia in dentistry," Jaime countered with a laugh.

"Pffttt, as if we're going to whoa!"

That would be the rapids again, and Dinah concentrating on hanging on and keeping hold of her paddled as they were suddenly riding over the white water water waves like it was a mountain bike course.

"EEEeeeee!"

Jaime relaxed into the way the raft bounced. He'd gotten banged around enough as the Blue Beetle to know how to ride out that sort of thing. "You say that now," Jaime laughed, "but just you wait!"

Dinah turned her head to say something, and then they hit another rush of waves, and the boat tipped sideways.

She managed to keep hold of one of the straps, but that didn't stop her from somersaulting out of the boat and into the icy water with a shocked gasp.

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