So, I must say I am SERIOUSLY in need of an adrenaline rush, just something to get my heart pumping you know. There was a trip coming up, and I really wanted to go, I asked the ladies if they would be willing to go on the trip and what do you know everyone said yes. White water rafting and bungee jumping here we come. Now, everyone did not agree to bungee jump, but every one agreed to go rafting, what can I say you win some you lose some lol.
We had to be in the city to make the bus at 7:30am this meant we had to get up and catch the 5:50am bus (way too early). We got the rafting place and were placed in groups of ten. We rafted for about 2 hours and my arms are STILL sore! Rafting was a lot of run, we got to do a bit of swimming, and water sliding which was a nice unexpected twist. After we rafted for a while we then went to the bungee jumping location. Dun, Dun, DUNNNNNNNNNNN!
So we pull up to this huge bridge where we had 2 options as far as bungee jumping goes, we had the option to jump by our ankles OR by the waste. I remember thinking "Hey, I may never do this again so I should just go big, and go with the ankle jump" so that's what Carm, and I picked, and Marquita decided to jump by the waist. Once we made that decision we then had to sign a form (that was written ALL in Korean) I am pretty sure it said something to the effect if you die its your fault, then we got weighed. If you weighed a certain amount you could not jump. Then we walked up this HUGE stairwell to the stop of the bridge. We finally made it to the top and then we got strapped in to our harnesses. My harness was really really tight around my ankles, it kinda hurt but I just thought that it was supposed to be tight, I mean hey I didn't want to fall out or anything.
The most scary part was the fact that we were waiting for an hour plus waiting for our turn to jump. It was rather nerve racking standing up there, heart pounding a million times a minute just waiting for your turn to jump off of a bridge. So the time had finally come, we were on the platform and it was our turn to jump one by one. We asked the guide who spoke English if he had any suggestions, and he said "Don't look down, and jump far out". I personally was not too sure how far I was going to jump, or if I was going to look down or not, but I did know I didn't want to be standing on the ledge for long. I told my self when he says "1, 2, 3,Jump!" I would do exactly that, JUMP!
So here I am, on the ledge and he says "1, 2, 3, JUMP" and I took a Superman dive off the ledge, when doing so I heard the guy say "Whoa!". That was NOT a pleasant feeling, I was thinking WHOA?!?!? WHOA, what? Whoa, we didn't strap her in right? Whoa, she jumped too early, Whoa, she is gonna do a Trevor on the Fresh Prince of Bel air?? WHOA what sir! My next thoughts while flying through the air were more like what the heck was I thinking, why did I jump of a flipping bridge? Well, adrenaline rush is what I asked for and that is what I got, that's for sure! After I stopped swinging and I was hanging upside down waiting for the guy in the boat to unhook me from my harness. I was sitting in the boat as we were rowing to the land and I remember thinking, my leg really hurts. And no wonder it was hurting, I looked down and there was a huge patch of skin ripped off my shin, like a burn. When I say ripped I am not exaggerating, the white meat was showing, it sucked really bad. So over all bungee jumping and white water rafting were TONS of fun. I think sky diving is next! Until next time :)
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