Day 48 - Go Ape and Bra Balaclava's

Now, this was fun... I took Savannah and Luke to Go Ape in Black Park today, what a laugh, obviously, we went to the loo before the event, in fact, I went twice just to be sure!  We purchased these cool gloves that made us feel a little like Spiderman, they had little sticky suckers on them so that we could grip the wires better and on return from the loo Luke made a mental note to himself  "do not wear these gloves when going to the toilet". 


Lovely Alex, our instructor,  gave us a brief brief and strapped us into our harnesses.  It felt strangely supportive, we have lines and Carabiner hooks dangling between our legs, the zip wire iron clipped firmly to our side, tackle around our bottoms and legs and the all important whistle in case of emergency.... we waddled to the first leg of our adventure.

This was fantastic, ladders, ropes, bridges, zip wires, balance beams and so much more all up in the trees, it was so high that we could almost see into the birds nests!!  Our hearts were pounding when we saw the length of the first Zip Wire, Luke all cocky to start with but that soon wore off... it didn't help that right behind us were some little boys of about 11 who thought it was terribly funny to remind us that we were going to die... he enjoyed telling us "5 people had already died on this wire and there was about to be a 6th!"  Not true however, there have been no fatalities at all but it does knock your confidence a little when the little brats shake the bridge!

Happiness is sitting in a tree

Oh Dear!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's a Snook!!!

Does my bum look big in this?

The kid behind is going to Die!

Can you guess what word she is saying?

Luke was stuck here for 15 minutes! 

Team work

We made it and we did not die!

We received our certificates and felt rather proud of our achievement, the staff were fantastic and took our photo before we headed off.  As we got into the car, the heavens opened and hail, rain and wind lashed at the windscreen, we couldn't believe our luck, can you imagine if this weather hit us when we were 50ft up in the air swinging through the trees.

Pizza Express followed by Massimo... yum... well we deserved it didn't we?

Now, getting on for midnight, my house is full of teenagers, I think at last count there were 8 downstairs and 2 upstairs... I did join them for a short while, they were telling drunken stories... one of the girls was telling us that the last time she got really drunk, she was stark naked and quite sick, she said that one of her friends had to hold her hair back and the others held her boobs back whilst she threw up down the toilet!!! I pondered on this for a moment and couldn't fathom why she would need her 32 A boobs held back!!!  I then had to leave them to it when the conversation swayed to virginity!  Apparently one of the girls had lost theirs (I wont tell you who) but the other one found it!  She said she had to have a good rummage around!!!

I came upstairs to finish my blog and heard a massive scream as the boys had entered the living room whilst the girls were working out if their heads would fit into their bras!!! hmmm, that is one that I believe I haven't tried before!!  However, I am quietly confident that my head would fit beautifully.  Savannah's however, would look more like a balaclava, on most!!!!  No alcohol was consumed! Honest..... this was all stone cold sober, I dread to think what the conversation would have been like under the influence of alcohol!