What is the Craziest Thing You've Ever Done?

My daughter Kate attends Purdue University

and each week she has dinner with a faculty fellow

and other students.  This week the faculty fellow's

question of the week was,  "What is the craziest

thing  you have ever done?"  Kate won.

Her answer?  Steering a bamboo raft down a river

in a monsoon.  And I was along for this ride.

We were in the jungles of northern Thailand, we

had just spent the morning riding elephants and

had a lovely lunch when we went to ride a raft down

the river to meet up with our driver.  As Murphy's

Law would have it, as soon as we got on the raft

the monsoon hit.  There were 7 of us on this little

bamboo raft, in torrential rain.  They gave us these

goofy yellow party hats to keep the rain off us and

everytime we looked at each other we burst out

laughing.  And the ride went on forever...

Pure unadulterated joy!

I hope to experience many more crazy

adventures with you Kate!