Day 7: The Raft-ening

• Bit seriously behind on the blog updates now, surprisingly difficult to write a few hundred words a day.

• Day 7 was the day we chose to go tidal bore rafting, in which we clamber onto a rib and ride the highest tides in the world.
• Couldn't take my camera, for fairly obvious reasons, so no pictures I'm afraid.
• James got soaked, I managed to say dry for some reason, even though I was sat opposite him at the front of the boat.
• Wasn't so dry when I decided to go for a swim. Attempted to lower myself graciously off the side of the boat, but forgot to account for the fact that I was wearing trainers. Went straight under.
• Getting back in the boat was a similar problem, not my most graceful moment.
• Took all eight of us on the raft to drag a rather hefty kid back in after he'd gone swimming. For more information, see the previous posts on portion size, or tune in later for details about 'the doubledown'

• After the rafting was something called mudsliding.
• It wasn't for me.
• Looked to be as much fun as a really dirty slide.

• Pretty hungry after the rafting, we returned to the car and hunted out some quick food. We found a KFC, and it was herein where we discovered  'the doubledown'
• For this 'burger', KFC decided to forgo the use of bread, and opted instead to use two pieces of battered chicken. This was wrapped around bacon, cheese, sauce, 500 calories and a higher sodium content than the recommended daily allowance.