"Oh My God, I Can't Do This"

Ok, so yesterday was a pretty chill day, recovering from the night before. Yesterday afternoon Mel and I watched some rugby at the Queenstown Rugby Club. There was a tournament going on. It felt like a very New Zealand thing to do. It was quite amazing, with the Remarkables mountain range in the background and rugby in front of us, it was a pretty good afternoon. The highlight was definately the race for the beer though. Each team had to send a representative to race to the middle of the field for a couple cases of beer. When they were all ready to go, the announcer stated that the catch was they had to do it in their underwear. Apparently these boys have no shame (pretty much what you expect from rugby boys), they all striped down to their boxers and sprinted. It was pretty funny. It was also funny watching with Mel, who has a bit of a hard time with the 'violence' of rugby, she really couldn't handle the hits all the well; lots of 'oh my god' and 'oh, no, no'. Anyways, we went out again last night, which was quite a bit of fun. Quite impressed with the retraktable roof at Winnie's. Then today I got up for what may be the scariest thing I have ever done. Two nights ago I won a free Canyon Swing, so today I did it. Essentially, you are on a platform 140m over the shotover river. You jump off this platform and free fall for approximately 4.5 seconds, then arc into the "biggest swing in the world". All together you end up 109m below where you started and travel at speeds of up to 150 km/h. It was crazy. I started to have a panick as we got to the platform. By the time I was harnessed in and ready to go, I was white as a ghost and couldn't take my hands away from my face. There was a lot of "Oh my god I can't do this" and "I'm so scared". In the picture at the top, I look like I am going to vomit. When he said to step to the edge, I barely uncovered my eyes, steped to the edge and jumped. It was the scariest thing, but such an adrenaline rush. By the time I stopped swinging and they started to bring me back up, tears were streaming down my face, not so much out of fear, but pure shock. It was intense. Mel hadn't planned on doing it, but got talked into it. She was going to fall backwards, but couldn't do it, so jumped forwards just like me. She screamed the entire way, except for a second when she had to catch her breath. Some of the other people did pretty cool things. The best was Steve from the UK, they helped him up into a handstand and went; it was crazy. Wierd thing too, one of the guys working there, I thought I recognized him, couldn't figure out where from, then he introduced himself. Another person from Fernie. Crispen was at Fernie the same season I was, kinda strange, when I said something, he was like "I knew you looked familiar, but couldn't figure out why"... small world. Anyways, a pretty awesome event. Mel is going to do the Nevis tomorrow (the world's largest bungi jump). I have decided that my jumping days are over and will stay on solid ground to cheer her on. After we got back to town we headed for a Fergburger. Pretty amazing burger, may even beat Peter's, although I could have used a Peter's milkshake. So a pretty amazing day, not one that I want to repeat, but pretty amazing. Just want to say congrats to Jim, the new Canadian record holder in hammer throw. I am ready for the Commonwealth Games with my Canada flag!