CANYON SWING

Today was INCREDIBLE!

Weather wasn't too great this morning, too many clouds- so skydiving was cancelled :( But no worries... we found another adrenaline rushing activity to do.. Canyon Swing! I'm not sure where the word swing comes from because there is definitely no swing or swinging involved. You basically jump off a platform 200 Kilometers high and go straight down and then swing at the bottom but that's not the exciting part. The best part was the free falling! I don't like things like that so I'm surprised I liked it so much. I was way more scared before I did it than when I actually jumped. The guys were hilarious! They tried freaking me out as much as they could and dragged it out forever. They would pretend to push me but wouldn't and then they tried telling me my rope was broken but I knew better than to believe them. I did 2 jumps because the second one was only $15 because they donated it to a charity here in New Zealand. I figured if I'd spend 200 on one jump, 15 wouldn't matter much for the second one!The first jump I did was the "Chair of Death" and no worries, I didn't die so the name isn't very accurate thank goodness! It was the best feeling ever! I did a few flips in the chair and screamed a whole lot. For my second jump I did the Gimp Man goes to Hollywood and what they do is harness you in so you are just sitting in the air hanging over the canyon and then they pull a rope and you FLY down, head first, with you legs wrapped around the rope. It was CRAZY! Absolutely amazing/ best experience thus far.
For lunch we went to Fergburger and it was so good! The burgers were double the size my dad makes, which means they were huge! Really good (first time I've actually liked food here in New Zealand)
I've loaded the videos of my jumps on Facebook so check them out, and I'm about to load all the pictures they took!
I have one essay left to do and then we're getting ready and going out downtown for our last night in Queenstown! Tomorrow we are off to FOX GLACIER!
In fox glacier we will be hiking the glacier! Crazy! It's supposed to be as hard as yesterday's 12 mile hike if not harder because of all the heavy gear we will be wearing. All I have to say is this is the most amazing trip EVER!

& today was even better because I got to skype mom & dad!! :) Mom got surgery on her achilles and is recovery slowly but surely! (Miss you guys so much)

Don't forget to watch the videos!

Peace & Love!

Caitlin