December 15, 2007

I went bungee jumping and rafting.

The rafting was really fun. There was one scary part though when the raft tipped over and I got stuck under the water for a long time. I really thought I was going to die. I was thinking, "so this is what its like to drown" when I finally came up, I was gasping for air and I couldn’t stop gasping. I guess you call it hyperventilating. One of the safety kayakers was there and he told me to hold onto his kayak and that’s how I went through the next rapids. Finally I got back to my raft just as they were flipping it back right side up. As they did this, one of the oars came and whacked me in the face. After that I was in some sort of shock I guess, cause Bjorn hauled me onto the boat and then we both spent the next set of thrashing rapids being slammed around the bottom of the boat, trying to untangle ourselves. When we finally got to calm water and I was able to start breathing normally again, I realized my braces were stuck inside my lip. (From when the oar hit me in the face) they went almost all the way through my lip, just a little puncture was showing on the outside, but the metal wasn’t poking through. Anyways, that was by far the scariest time of my life!

The scariest part of bungee jumping was the anticipation. I couldn’t sleep for the two nights before I went! Then when I finally got onto the platform on the bridge with my toes hanging over the edge, in a panic, decided I didn’t want to go anymore!! But by then it was way too late to change my mind! Once I dove off the edge, it was instant relief. It was amazing and wonderful! It wasn’t scary at all anymore once I was falling. Sometimes when you’re doing something fast like that, you aren’t aware of anything around you and afterwards, you can’t remember what anything looked like. At least that’s how it always has been for me jumping off high places into water and stuff, but this time was different. I was aware of everything! I could see the water below rushing towards me and I could see the rocks of the canyon passing by and I was just enjoying it, there wasn’t an ounce of fear or any feeling of going fast... it was very surreal. Im SO glad I did it. I would recommend it to anyone and everyone! Bjorn and Josh also went. SO MUCH FUN!!!