{Fearless Friday} Our adventures with ziplining

First I want to tell you something "funny".

One of my goals for this year is to do something fun as a family every month. You'd think that would be easy but life goes by very quickly. As in, I totally missed March's one.

When we were on holiday, there were brochures at the resort advertising lots of adventure-type activities, one of which was ziplining.

It's always been on my list and this year the kids are big enough so we decided to go.

When I realised it was 30th April, I said to D, "let's do it tomorrow so it can be our May adventure" and to his credit, he agreed with my madness after I phoned them to make sure they were open on the public holiday.

The kids were adorable in their helmets but look at the fear in K's face (biggest photo below). They both get very, very quiet when they're scared.



D told me when they got to him at the end of the first line, they were both crying. They told me when they got back to me that they didn't want to do it anymore but I gave them a talk and we agreed they'd do just two more zips.

What do you call it? Zips? Swings? Swishes?

The kids were allowed to go 5 times for their R55, and they actually did them all. Connor even got an extra zip in.

can you see how scared he is? too sweet (I almost want to frighten him daily to see the sweetness)

Then it was our turn.

Well, just the practice about did me in. It was HARD.

I'm not super fit but I'm also not the most unfit person around (I'd say I'm acceptable) and it was HARD.

Apparently adults get to go around the course 3 - 4 times in their hour. After I'd been around once, I told the guy to take off all my stuff because I WAS DONE!

He was horrified.

I said, "I've had quite enough, thank you very much". When he mentioned PHOTOS, I said ok to one little zip on the kiddies line just for photos.

So here is PROOF I've ziplined.

D said, "oh come on, that's not what you looked like on the actual zipline"...

so I did this face! which shows my true terror

this was just for the last little (tame) zipline because I'd been videoing D

And I'm not interested in doing any more of these adventure things. My adventures henceforth will come from normal things like speaking in front of crowds and saying yes to opportunities to step out of the (mental and emotional) box.

I can honestly say I felt SO BAD forcing the kids to go because if we'd gone first, I'd have kept them back.

Connor did say, "this is number 5 and after this I'm NEVER EVER EVER coming back to do this again".

I feel exactly the same!

Not to go all spiritual on you but I LOVE those photos of D waiting for the kids. It reminds me of how God is always ready to catch us and hold us safely.

D loved it, of course. There had to be one.

And then decided he even wanted to do the tree swing.

So there we have it.

We're not an adventure family and we like it just fine.

Are you an adventurous sort of family?
Have you ziplined before? Did you love it?

PS I mentioned before maybe going ziplining as a group for my 40th. Um, no. Not going to happen.