3, 2, 1--BUNGY!!!!

Today was awesome. It's our last full day in Queenstown and we could not leave without doing the bungy jumping off of the Kawarau Bridge. This bridge was where the first bungy jump took place by A.J Hackett in 1988. We had planned on doing a tandem bungy jump but due to the higher water level of the river below us, it wasn't safe to do.
Earlier this morning, we had signed up to do our jumps at 3pm. We drove to Arrowtown (a town just outside of Queenstown) to have lunch and check out this little town that is famous for the Gold Rush in 1862. Arrowtown is a 5 minute drive from the bridge so we hung around town and went for a walk down by the river and then headed over to the bungy area two hours early to just watch some jumps. Luke was so excited and didn't seem to ever really get nervous. As for me, I could feel my heart pounding, palms sweating, and butterflies in my stomach for the next two hours. I decided I couldn't handle just sitting and watching this since i was so dang nervous. So, we saw a little winery just down the road and decided to go do a wine tasting. And besides tasting some delicious wines, why not take the edge off of the anxiety a little bit?
While at the winery, we met a great couple who were in town from Michigan. They were an older couple and had been traveling for 10 weeks thru Australia and NZ. They even came over to watch us do our bungy jumping and they both cheered for us and video taped us.
So we got weighed in-had a ticket with our weight on and they wrote our weight on our hand in red marker (real nice). This is how they adjust their rope for each person.
I was first and I remembered that the first time i bungy jumped in WI I was a little scaredy cat and stood for 5 min before i went. My goal was to not do that. So the nice guy gave me a good pep talk and he counted down and off the bridge i went. Then I was able to watch Luke and he did an awesome swan dive off the bridge and they dunked him in the river up to his belly button!! We could hear on the video the guy say "that'll give him a good lil shock." It was an absolute blast and we are soooo glad we did it. And, we survived to talk about it. We will download pictures of our jumps later from the companies website. 43 meter jump...

We just got back from going out for dinner at a pub down the street. This time we had to try Tui's beer, the second beer recommended by one of my friend's. Had some good grub and now we are gonna plot out our journey to Mt Cook which we will be heading to tomorrow morning after we get up. It should be about a 3-4 hour drive for us.