Last Sunday I went Canyoning. Canyoning or abseiling, as they call it in South Africa, is where you repel down a mountain. It's what people do after they rock climb up a mountain.
We got up at 6:30 and drove about and hour away to an area called Paarl (wine country). We drove up this windy road, geared up (got in the cutest harnesses with bright orange helmets) and drove to the top of a 450 meter mountain. The people taking us up were great. There were 4 of them, Brett, Cas and two whose names I have forgotten. They fed us breakfast when we were getting geared up and talked us through all of the safety procedures.
We had five abseil sites. The first was about 20 meters and pretty easy, although we landed in about 4 feet of water. The second one was even more fun, about 30 meters down and half way through you started going underneath a waterfall. The last two were the best. The second to last was 50 meters up, which is pretty scary and is was a little slippery, but exhilarating when you got to the bottom. The last one was flat and you could jump off the wall a little bit and get down faster. When we weren't abseiling we were climbing down rocks and walking through little rivers. It was exhausting, but so much fun. We had lunch at the middle of the mountain and beers when we got back to the bottom. We got home around 9 and had been on the mountain almost the whole day.
Lots of love to all of you and sorry I haven't written in so long.
13 comments:
Hi Ema
Wow that sounds like fun it's almost like the rock climbling in at rei in Downtown seattle. I'm glad it sounds like you guys had a good time. It has been a total plesure to be able to follow your trip. May March be fiilled with many great and wonderful experices. I hope that your confrence went well. I hope that you learned some cool stuff from that. I hope that you are enjoying the sun down there it is staring to get sunny up her in Seattle. So hopfully for the day you return it will be nice and warm. I will be thrilled to her you stories after i return from Mexcio. I hope you have a great rest of your week and a great weekend.
Andy
Hi Ema
I'm glad that you had a good time canyoning. It sound like a very excited experice. I've never done that kind of canyoning. I've rented them from the uw canyone house. I glad you were able to experice something new. I hope you have a great week and a wonderful weekend.
Andy
Hi Ema
I hope your week has gone well for you this week. I hope that your confrence was inspiring and intersting. I hope that you are have many wonderful and amazing experices on this trip. I hope the last month brings many of them too as well. I hope that you have a great weekend
Andy
Hi Ema
I hope you are having a great weekend this weekend. I hope that this trip has been filled with fun and amazing experices for you. I hope that the rest of you trip is filled with the same of that was well. This week is busy at church getting ready for mexcio the end of the month. I will call you when i get home April 5th. I hope that you have a great weekend and a wonderful week next week.
Andy
Hi Ema
I hope that you have had a great weekend. I hope that you have enjoyed your experices on this trip and i hope you continue to have amzing ones while you are still there. I hope that this trip has both been inspiring and educational for you in many different ways. I hope that you have a wonderful week next week. I hope that the last few weeks of your trip are filled with amazing experices
Andy
Hi Ema
I hope you had a good day today. I hope that your experices are going great wiith your program. I hope that you are enjoying the nice sunny weather down there. As i said in my last posting i hope that this trip has been inspriantional and educiational for you in many ways. It has been a total plesure to be able to follow it every step of the way. I hope that you have a great rest of your week and enjoy the sun.
Andy
Hi Ema
I heard from your mom that you will be there till March 31, I hope you have a wonderful rest of the trip and continue to have those amazing experices. I will be excited to here about when i get home from mexcio.
Andy
Hi Ema
I hope that you are having a great week. I have sent you some info regarding party at the suite in which you and your mom are attending so you might what to look at it when you get home. I hope that you have had a wonderful time on your trip in Cape town. I hope it has been and educiational and insperaitionl experice for you. I hope you continue to have great experices throught out the rest of your trip.
Andy
Hi Ema
I hope that you week is going well for you this week. It has been a total plesure to be able to follow your trip all the way along,. you and your mom are my two favorite clients in the travel agency business. I hope this has been is very meaningful trip for you.
andy
Hi Ema
I hope that you have had a great week this week. I hope that you are having a great experice with the program. I hope that you guys are getting nice sunny weather down there as well. I hope that this trip has been insperational and educational for you in many ways. I'm going up to Bellingham tomorrow with my mom and the brother and my Grandma and we are going to have lunch with my Mom's uncle. It will be a nice road trip north up 1-5. I hope that last few weeks of this trip are filled with the same amazing experinces you have had on this trip as a whole. I hope that you have a great week and a wonderful week next week.
Andy
Hi Ema
I hope that you week has gone well for you. I hope that you have had many wonderful and amazing experices on this trip. I hope that you are enjoying the sunny weather down there this weekend. I hope you enjoy last few weeks of your trip before you head for Seattle. I hope you enjoy seeing your friends to the north in Tanzaina. I'm sure that they will be thrilled to see you. I hope this has been and amazing 2 and a half months. I hope you have a great weekend and a wonderful week next week.
Andy
Hi Ema
I hope that you are having a good weekend in Cape town. I also wanted to say rhat it has been a total pleasure to follow your trip on the blog. I have enjoyed reading you postings. You and your mom are my two favorite clinets in my travel agecy business. I will be very excited to hear all about after i get home from mexcio on april 5th. I also wanted to say that i hope you have a great time seeing your friends in Tanzaina. I want wish you a wonderful final two weeks. and my prayers for a safe trip home.
Andy
Hi Ema
I hope that you have had a great month of March. I hope that the confernce went well and was insprational to you. I hope that your experinces have been exciting and fun on this trip. I hope that this trip as a hole has been a great educaional and insperational experice for in many ways. I'm getting ready to go down to tjuana mexcio next satuday with my church. My flight to San Deigo leaves seattle at 6:40am but we have to arrive at the airport at 3:30am. I'm totally looking forward to it. I hope that you have many great future and excitng trips to africa later to follow.
Andy
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