Q-Town weekend

I know it's been a while, but I'll update you on my trip to Queenstown, which was definitely the experience of a lifetime!

So on Saturday, we had a bungy jump scheduled for 11:00, so we went into town, got weighed, and got on a bus to go to the bungy site. It's in this crazy canyon like 45 mins out of Queenstown so we had all that time to get amped up for it. When we got there, we got strapped into harnesses and some guy told us how to jump. He basically said to dive out as far as you can, which is safer but also looks cooler. So this bungy platform is out in the middle of the canyon, hanging on wires, 134 meters (440 feet) above the river below. You have to get transported out there on this little box thing that travels down the wires over to the "pod". Right before we were about to go out there, though, the power went out! This girl had just jumped and she was stuck down below and couldn't get pulled up. She also had trouble pulling her feet out of the bungy cord so she was hanging there upside down for like 5 mins. Now that REALLY made me excited to go... So we finally made it out to the pod and there's clear glass in the floor so you can see everyone jumping before you. They seriously just kept going down FOREVER it was unreal watching them from above. So a few people went before me, and then it was my turn! I sat in this like dentist chair, got all strapped in on my feet, they walked me out to the edge, and I didn't even have time to think about what I was doing, they were just like 3-2-1-GO! So i did the most graceful swan dive ever and fell 440 feet! It was the most incredible feeling ever I can't even describe it! And it's definitely way more scary than skydiving. But it was so amazing I would do it again in a heartbeat. 

After we got done with that, we went back to the mainland in the little transporter box and they had this special on this canyon swing. It was $55 per person for a tandem swing, so of course we couldn't pass it up! I went with Katie and it was hilarious. Even though we had just done this crazy bungy jump Katie was still freaking out as we were getting strapped together. We ended up doing it upside down with our faces to the ground and it was insane. We were just hanging there and then all of a sudden we were falling towards the canyon and swinging back. I guess it's the biggest swing in the world, which is pretty cool (120 meters). But that was definitely an adrenaline rush too. Definitely worth it! 

So after all that adrenaline, we took a chill hike in Glenorchy on Sunday and drove home that evening. Overall it was an EXTREME weekend!