Mum, we are alive!
Today i went on the canyon swing- scariest thing so far!! Have a look at the website.. google canyon swing. I chose to do the "Cutaway" swing (where you hang out over the gorge and they pull a string and you drop) because there was no way i was jumping off a 109m cliff doing flips or with a bin over my head!! Some of the other people in my group jumped with a bin on their heads ("bin laden") or with a chair.
Anyway... I was completely freaking out- the girls before me had been waiting for ages and the guys who worked there kept pretending to push them just to freak them out... so i was expecyting the same thing. Pretty much as soon as i was hanging over the cliff, the guy pulled the string mid conversation, resulting in me hurtling towards the ground making the kind of sound you would expect a male weightlifter to make (thats actually what Cath described it as, she saw the video!!).
After I "screamed" (you couldn't really call it a scream...) I was wondering if it was actually me who screamed!! Haha I bought the DVD at the end so remind me when I get back and you can watch it and laugh at me :). It wasn't as scary as I thought and the view of the canyon was great once I slowed down enough to see it!! No more extreme activities for a while though!
Better go, internet is chewing up my credit and this is already a long story!
suz
xox
ps. Today we also wandered around Queenie (as the locals call it) and went to "underwaterworld" (FREE entry!!) which was pretty cool :) Tonight we are going out- there is a "fun in the sun" theme at our hostel :)
Oh and I think I was supposed to write about jetboating- it was more exciting than fun, I'm glad I did the canyon swing after it, it would have seemed quite boring after what I did today!!
