We visited my brother's family in Charlotte for the Memorial Day weekend. My brother wanted to go do some rodeo rafting at the U.S. National Whitewater Center, but we didn't really have time, and it was raining, so we just went to check it out. The place is amazing, and yes, I, the guy who has seen scant few adventure sports that don't appeal to me, really walked away from the place with a an itch to try whitewater kayaking. I'll probably be suffering from that itch for quite a while as it seems I have a tendency for taking interests in sports that are just a bit too intense to capture my good wife's interest. That's a bad thing, as any wife can probably attest, because couples and families either play together, apart, or not at all, and my wife holds a strong preference for the together version (as do I, for the record). For reasons I can't understand, she thinks sending toddlers down rapids in kayaks sounds imprudent. She's been taking tennis lessons, can't understand why I'm not interested in it, and wants us to learn to golf together. Hmmm. I'm sure golf would be fun, but it's expensive--just think of all the kayaks, kite-boards, and bikes we wouldn't be able to afford if we spent our lives and play money on something like golf. ;-) Plus, there's an amazing amount of water around DC, and doesn't this look like more fun than golf? Actually, my top goal in the action sports department is to finally get a boat. Once that happens, I'm sure there will be little time to learn new sports like whitewater kayaking (or golf).
