I stared death in the FACE!

Last Saturday I saw my life flash before my eyes not once but twice. It all began when an Irish, Californian, New Yorker, Canadian and three bible throwers decided to go rafting down the Nile. We were hooked up with an amazing tour group that gave us three meals and a full day of rafting for only 75 American Dollars. Now when rafting they grade the rapids by numbers, 1-6 with 6 being very dangerous and illegal to go down in America. We started our way down the Nile just minding our own business when we approached a grade 3 rapid. We were told before the trip that if we wanted to tip the raft we could but we had the option. We were 15 mins into our trip when we hit the grade 3 and FLIPPED over! First time I saw my life flash before my eyes. The rapids are much stronger than any ocean I had ever been in and you must kick your way to the surface again. Once I took the first gasp for air I was sucked under again. Again I made it to the top and saw some fellow passengers floating around. I grabbed Leigh to make sure she was ok and next I saw Dean(a very tall Canadian who simply said,"Please Help me I can't swim") I grab dean and we all head back into the raft. Again we paddled and paddled till we go to where we stopped for lunch. We had a nice filling lunch and after Dean decided to go into a different raft(with some Brits) because he thought it would be safer. We continued to paddle and than hit a grade 4 rapid and AGAIN flipped. This time it was much scarier than the first because I ended up under the boat but new that air gets trapped underneath(thank you girlscouts/Dad). Again we were not supposed to flip and were pulled back into the raft to face some more rapids. Once again we paddled and paddled and came to a point where we had to get out onto the shore. When we got to the shore we only saw 1 other boat instead of 2. Where is Deans boat? One of the Brits told us they did not get over in time and went down a grade 6 rapid and they don't know what happened. We ran up the hill to see if we could find Dean. We found Dean on a rock in the middle of the grade 6 rapids stranded! The others in the raft were on other surrounding rocks some a whole mile down. After much loud talking between the guides they decided a rescue mission had to take place. Two guides went down the rapids to grab dean and some of the rest. The rest of the trip was cancelled because many were scratched up a bit and pretty shaken but over all it was an awesome adventurous death defying time!