Paragliding!

On Saturday morning we headed for paragliding. It happened to be a bit to cloudy so we had to wait a few hours. So our tour guide and all of us went out for a lunch. When it was time we went to go pick up the boys who were going to be our lead flyer. I mean boys, they were all 20 except for the head instructor. Randi and Regina got to go first they took off, off the top of the mountain and flew around for about a half hour and came back down on top of the mountain. Then Erica, Ruth and I got our chance. While I was getting strapped in I was talking to my flyer, I told him I was a bit nervous, kiddingly he replied. yeah me too. I laughed and asked him if he was nervous because it's his first time too, he said yup! haha. When we got strapped to the parachute two people have to hold you otherwise you get pulled back by the wind. So two people were holding my front they let go, and just told me to run.

So we ran, I literally ran right off the cliff, my friend said it was funny cause I kept running even when we were already off the cliff, I didn't know when to stop! When you are in the air you have to push a seat under you and then just sit back and enjoy the ride. Once in the air, my flyer told me we had to land again. I was like okay. Well in the meantime it began to rain...so he was like it will be okay. Turns out two strings were twisted, but it would not really effect the flight. The view was breathtaking. We did some tricks in the air, some twirling, and just some calm gliding. We when landed at the bottom of the mountain where the rest of the crew were to meet us after we landed. It was such a rush, and we hope to do it one more time before we leave!



Champion paraglider and I