Well Wednesday I officially turned old or at least an AARPer - again (sigh). Actually I've been a spouse member of AARP ever since Mike turned 50 and joined but now I can actually be a member all on my own..... I had a good day - lots of birthday posts on Facebook which was really nice, along with a few snail mail cards, an e-card, and a couple of phone calls. I know the goofus that created Facebook is making some changes to it and we're pretty much stuck with how he wants it to look but one thing that is nice about Facebook is that it is a nice, quick and easy way to stay in touch with family and friends to give a shout out on birthdays and for special events. Each post brought a smile to my face.
Below is Butler's birthday grin for me :) And he may be old but the other night there was a young cat in the backyard that if the dumb thing would have just stayed behind the hibiscus Butler would never have seen it but no it had to come out in front of the plant.....so Butler gave chase. First running into one of the hibiscus plants and then taking off after the cat across the yard. After the cat zoomed under the gap of my back gate to hit the alley, Butler lippity-lopped across the yard back to me proud of himself for getting rid of that "thing".
I finally got the pictures scanned onto my external hard drive tonight that were taken at Branson Zipline and Shepherd of the Hills Vigilante Zipline from vacation - which you can see below.
Here they told us to turn around, look back and smile after taking off on one of the ziplines. Yep - that's just a harness dealie that I stepped into that went around my waist that then hooked me to the zipline folks.
This was the last zipline at Branson Ziplines and they told us to pose. You can see the tower we took off from behind me with Chrissy getting ready after me. The longest zipline was 900'.
This is Shepherd of the Hills Vigilante Zipline that is like 200' high (the tower is 230'). Chrissy is on the left of this picture, I'm in the middle and some guy that had ridden it before is on the right. That's right - Chrissy and I are NOT holding on :)
With the Vigilante you have a canvas-like seat to sit in and have kind of a five-point harness to strap you in for safety. Waiting for Chrissy and the other guy to get strapped in, I could have been sitting in a steel cage waiting for the ride and would have still thought that wouldn't have been safe enough for this zipline but once the adventure started it was awesome.
The little thing hanging down behind my seat was a pouch that you could put things in like your camera for the ride with you. We landed, the big guy got me all unhooked and out of the seat and off I go. He's like, "do you have anything in the pouch?" Only my camera - duh. Almost walked off without it - imagine that.
