I SURVIVED!

I'm back! The South Island of New Zealand was A-MAZING. I LOVED it. Most importantly, I survived BUNGY JUMPING at the World's very first bungy site! It was 43 M off the Kawaru Bridge just outside of Queenstown. It was the one thing I knew I absolutely wanted to do on this South Island excursion. Crazy? Probably, but I was SO excited. Almost all of the other girls were not looking forward to it. (Every single one of the 16 girls ended up jumping...it was a pretty big deal.) Some of the other girls had already gone sky diving, but they were more nervous about bungy jumping than sky diving! The only time I felt a little nervous was as I hopped to the edge of the bridge and Ozzie--the bungy specialist--asked if I was ready. I couldn't even respond because all of sudden I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to do it. I had been informed, however, that I needed to jump as soon as possible because the longer I waited, the less likely I was to jump. So, I just did it. I held out my arms and fell head first. That free fall feeling was incredible. Exhilarating. I loved it. Definitely a highlight of my kiwi adventures so far :)

Thank you Janet for taking this exciting video of my bungy jump. Most girls just got a video of their jump, but Janet got bits and pieces of the whole experience. Enjoy! (Also, I just realized that when I posted the video it cut off some of the top. I don't know how to fix it, so hopefully you don't miss too much!)

So, I have been gone for almost two weeks now. I wish I could have blogged about each one of the days I was gone separately, but I didn't take my computer (we were only allowed to bring one backpack for EVERYTHING we needed) and I had limited internet use at the internet cafes along the way (I didn't really want to pay, so I only used the 3 free minutes they would give me haha). With 16 girls on the trip, that also means we had 16 cameras. 16 cameras means a TON of pictures. In order to curb our obnoxiousness we didn't use all 16 cameras for every event, meaning I will not have all of the pictures I want to put up until tomorrow. So, be excited for a huge post tomorrow with LOTS of excited pictures and stories :)