So a bike crash was definately on the cards. Ben hands off the handle bars, Holden steering from the back, a recipe for disaster; and it was. Moving about 5mph we pathetically fell off the side, a few bruises and scratches but we lived to fight another day. The weekend was a similar situation with epic nights out with the boys and gals from Busoga Trust on top form. Sunday and a trip to church with the born again christians, for those Borat fans, it was exactly like that. Singing, dancing, rolling around on the floor, and general all round exaggerated praise only seen before at CYNT ( a mad night in Cardiff). The football video made, (check on my facebook page) and we had an early night as we prepared for rafting the great river Nile the next day.

up at 8.30, strong coffee, boiled eggs, life vests, helmets, look like bellends. 6 in a boat...Henry our raft guide said "how do you want to take the rapids? medium or hard?" Laurence replied "hard, very hard"...it was carnage, 40km stretch of blue skies and grade 5 white water drowning us at every opportunity, we flipped on every rapid in true style as it churned raft and bodyparts in all directions like a giant blender and in many occassions Holden used his face to cushion the flying paddles. A glorious 45 minute stretch of flat open water at midday with some pineapple and biscuits as we all went dipping in the crocodile infested water and backflipped off the raft before the beasting began once again. The final rapid known as the "bad place" truely was an adrenaline junkie's wet dream a perfect scenario to commit the perfect suicide.

A long bus journey back to the rafting campsite. We had a massive beef kebab BBQ and free beer. We waited for our rafting video to be shown and 9pm on the big screen while the bar filled up, and we soaked ourselves in aftersun after a full day in the sun. Talking of aftersun, Ben and Ed decided to cover Holdens face in aftersun after he retired to the dorm about 50 metres from the bar. As he woke up the next morning, blind in one eye, he slapped Laurence round the face and drove home leaving the boys to make their own way home, revenge is sweet. Overall rafting on the Nile is one of the best experiences to date, a great day out, mental waters, loads of food and booze, free accomodation, and great pranks by mates.

we've given him some before, but can we give him more.....Banter and the Chode xxx