The Youth Minister's Wife

Our 1st full day on our last shift we went rafting! A donor paid for a rafting and adventure company to come pick up all the Crossnore kids in their buses and take us all to the Watauga River for a 3-ish mile rafting trip. The girls had so much fun. I was on a raft with several of my girls who did not particularly enjoy the water gun fights that went down between all the rafts. So we were known as the “party pooper” or “pansy” group. But who cares? We had fun focussing on our paddling and being in rhythm and enjoying the views. The picture above is not of us or any of the rafts from Crossnore, but it is a picture of a raft going down the Watauga River. And the fog you see, it was like that on the day we went. It happens because water is actually dammed up most of the time, and when it is released, it comes from a huge lake, which releases the bottom (the coldest) water. When that mixes with the river water, it creates the fog, which was captivatingly beautiful. One of my girls mentioned that she felt like she was in the Lord of the Rings movies. It was her first time ever rafting. That’s priceless.