April 9

Day two of rest days....

Day one was awesome so the question was....  could day two even come close? The answer...  YES!

It started with a helicopter ride.  One of the riders knew the owner of a tour company.  He got us in as fill to do flights over the falls and the gorge for free.  I got a flight over the gorge.  And was it thrilling!!!!  The pilot took us across the terrain after take off at about 100 feet above the trees at light speed.  Then he announced we were approaching the gorge.  No sooner did he state it that he pushed the stick forward and we dove down the wall of the gorge.  I felt like I was in an elevator that the cable broke and we were in free fall.  Wow!  He then leveled off at less than 50 feet above the water.  We flew through the gorge slightly above the water and banking at the turns in the river.  It was like something out of a movie, but I was in it.  I was sitting in the copilot a seat and was in smile mode from ear to ear.  Then he started climbing out of the gorge at tree level.  My seat had glass all around even under my feet. We were so close to the trees that I lifted my feet in order to get over the trees.  Awesome, fantastic, phenomenal.

And as if that wasn't enough to make a good day...  I followed that with a bungi jump off the Victoria Falls bridge.  Yes, I bungi jumped off the second highest one in the world.  I won the bungi jump in a raffle the evening before.  There were several from our group that did it.  One of the guys legs were shaking so hard as he stepped out into the platform you could actually hear his knees knock.  Another looked like he was going to throw up or pass out.  I followed these.  I kept thinking I was going to be scared s#*^less but I wasn't.  It was no where near as scary as I thought it was going to be.  I reached the edge of the platform and they counted to five. I leaped up and out and flew.  It was exhilarating.  My leap carried my feet way out and going faster than my head.  I kept swimming with my arms to get back under control.  Once you reach the end of the rope, you spring back up.  I took that flow all the way to the top and sat up.  That gave me the leverage at the peak of the rebounce to then throw my body from a sit-up position to fully straight again.  This accelerated my fall back down at a faster speed...  really cool.  I did it a couple of times until they yelled at me to stay straight as they wanted to get me back in.  Oh well, always getting in trouble.  :)

But what a thrill day!!!  Hard to put all of it in perspective or words.  All I can say is WOW!!!

My helicopter ride.  Thrills galore!

This is the bridge I did the bungi leap off of....  Look out below!  :)