Zip!

Here are some photos of our adventures last week on a zipline tour with friends in Door County, Wisconsin.


The bad news is I tried to upload a short self-video of my turn doing "The Vomit Comet," but am sad to report (although you may be relieved to find out) that the video would not upload to the blog.

The good news is that I will tell you all about it anyway! The shaky video started out with some goofy and unfortunate angles ("Hello, Cleavage!"), but it became pretty silly and not too vertigo-inspiring in the end.

Essentially, I got tossed off the edge of the precipice by two people who sent me spinning. I am here to tell you after two Vomit Comets that it was SO MUCH FUN to literally spin through the woods, and that I did not vomit nor end up in flames even once. But I was a little dizzy. So there you go.

Anyway, ziplining through the trees is quite a rush and is now one of our family's favorite things to do while on vacation in our favorite part of Wisconsin!


Alex takes off on The Vomit Comet!

Zip Daddy goes upside down!

The guides told us to give a yell when we were ready to go. "For Narnia!!!" was wildly popular. We also liked to give a shout-out to Little Orphan Annie in her scary chase scene: "PUNJAB -- HELP ME!!!"










But wait! There's more!

We liked the zips that we did with our friends so much that we signed up to do it again later in the week with our family.


Little did we know that some of them (names withheld to protect the acrophobic) were a bit more afraid of heights than we remembered. Uh oh.

But everyone bravely zipped along, and all's well that ends, well, with a ZIP (and/or a "death grip")! "Never fear, Punjab will catch you! Ah ha ha ha ha. Buddha says, 'A child without courage is like a night without stars!'"





An added bonus of this crazy experience is that now everyone (including the teacher among us) has a great inspiration for a personal essay for the first days of school, even if one or two of them are entitled, "The Day My [Sister/Aunt] Pushed Me Off the Top of a Tree!"