August 29th, 2009 by Oscar Javier

If you grew up in the central valley and had a river near your town, most likely you found your down time floating on the cool waters enjoying the summer sun with family or friends. It’s a traditional getaway on tubes that takes 2-3 hours to complete.

On this particular weekend, we gathered a group of 11 rubber doughnut drifters to adventure the river and beat the heat. Several beach coves made perfect water parking lots for hanging out, swimming, and just relaxing.

My wife and I enjoyed this type of recreation years before we married and this was our first trip down the river as married tubers. It generally felt the same except for my new titanium wedding ring.

My titanium mens wedding band was carefully selected by my wife to reflect my adventurous spirit. It has a flat profile and 3 off-center grooves that give it a sporty feel as well. I constantly get compliments from those that see it.

We were at the halfway point and floated into a beach area. We stayed a good while then left.You don’t think about how the cold water can cause the fingers to shrink when your having a good time. Sure enough my ring must have slipped off in the cold water because I discovered it gone from my finger shortly after coming out of the water.

We had a terrific day of tubing down the river that was clouded by the loss of my new wedding band. It did not make for a happy wife which of course makes for an unhappy husband.

I did not feel like it but was talked into going again two weeks later tubing down the river with friends. Our group, as expected, stopped at the beach cove we normally spend time in to relax and wait for a second group to meet up with us. I was casually relaxing by the shore and feeling the sandy bottom as I felt a smooth rock and picked it out of the water only to discover my lost wedding ring. What are the odds! My wife was ecstatic. I considered myself the luckiest man alive that day.

I have told that story countless times to people. I consider it remarkable to have lost a wedding band in the river, go two weeks, and find it again. The odds have got to be 100 million to one or higher. It was my incredible titanium wedding band recovery.