First trip.

Today I ran OTT(on trip training). That's when you are out of the initial training phase, and now actually running with a mentor on the river with a real trip. Waking up this morning was the first good thing that happened in a series of good things that accumulate into maybe this being the best day ever.

Today had it all. The best part of the day was when I went over a rapid and ended up upside down separated from my normal source of air. I very calmly set up for a roll and went for it. I nailed it. My first combat roll. Next thing I hear is a bunch of clapping and people yelling "yeah matt!". I look over at the shore and the entire group of trainees from a different training trip were sitting there clapping and yelling. Most of those guys were there during the times when I failed my roll and ended up swimming, so it was a pretty satisfying moment.

My guide mentor today was awesome. She's actually a chick that caused me to internally say "wow" the first time that I met her a couple weeks ago. Not just cause she's super cute, but because she's got an awesome personality and she's into cool things like kayaking. So having to spend an entire day kayaking next to her and chatting was definitely not an unpleasant experience. Of course I didn't know if she was single or not so I wasn't going to go about making a foo out of myself by asking her out....turns out I didn't have to, she asked me out at the end of the day. Sweet.

Today started off good, and just progressively got better. Who knows what the heck else can happen before its over.