The Bell Family

Recently, I was over in New Zealand for another conference to which I was invited as a guest speaker (I’ll document this trip in another blog post).

Anyway, to cut a long story short, as part of the trip I wanted to make it quite memorable, so I was searching for something a little extreme… I had heard that jet boating was pretty good and wanted to do that, but at the last moment I had decided to do some bungy jumping.

So with Chrissy with me, I decided to buy 2 tickets to go bungy jumping…

Well as you can imagine, Chrissy wasn’t too impressed….

It was funny, with the short drive to the bungy location, I was all excited saying that I would do a superman dive and saying it would be easy…

Here is a photo of the bridge both Chrissy and I jumped off.

Anyway, once we arrived, we got weighed and we had to wait for the jump master… Anyway, when walking to the bridge, which I might add is a single lane wooden bridge, I asked Chrissy did she want to go first or second…. So after a few moments, she decided that she wanted to go first….

So after triple checks, Chrissy walked up to the edge and with a quick count down 3, 2, 1, BUNGY – Chrissy jumped off without much fuss… I must admit I was surprised and proud… Chrissy later said that once it was paid for, there was not much to do than to get it over and done with!!!

Anyway below are some amazing pictures of Chrissy’s jump.

Okay, are you ready???

Wave to the camera

On your marks….

Get set….

Jump….

Can somebody come and get me….

So, it is funny, but with the lead up to the jump, I was all positive and Chrissy was somewhat hesitant… But when it came to being on the bridge and jumping it was quite different. Unlike Chrissy, when it came time for me to jump, I had a false start… It was quite funny, 3, 2, 1…. Uooh…. For those who are unaware, I am somewhat afraid of heights and as a kid I used to be scared of driving over large bridges… So this bungy was a combination of many of the fears I have/used to have…

So the guy said not to look down, but damn that is so hard not to do…

So after a few deep breaths and a second count down I took the leap of faith!!!!

Okay, wave to the camera

On your marks, get set….

False start… Deep breaths…

On your marks, get set…

Jump…..

I must say, this looks a pretty good picture…

Damn that was a lot of fun!!!!!!

Anyway, all things aside, even with Chrissy’s initial concerns and my trepidation, we both were very happy to have “JUMPED” and it was an amazing experience…. what do they say – mind over matter!!!

Hope you enjoyed the pics…

Until next time…

Take it easy,
Jason and Chrissy