Stink Eye Received

Dennis turns the freaking channel just as I sit down to watch TV.    he does this all the time and all weekend he has pretty much had control of the TV.  But this time, I give him the stink eye

Dennis:  "What?"

Me:  "Hey!  I was watching that!"

Dennis:  "Yah.. 'Was".   I was just flipping through channels waiting for my show to come back on."

Me:  "You always do that!  You can't control all the TV's in the house."

Dennis:  "Yes I can!  This is my castle."

*Insert another stink eye here*

Me:  "It's not just YOUR castle....."

Dennis:  "But I am the King!"

Me:  "Well, I am the Queen."

Dennis:  "Exactly!  You come in second to the King!"

Why Are Their Bodies In The River???

Our Group before climbing up 7 stories of stairs...

I have a bucket list. There are things on this list that I will never be able to do, cause let's face it... I'm a poor white girl!   But when I do find things on that list that I CAN do... I should do them, right?

I am afraid of heights.  So why would one of my bucket lists be Zip Lining?  Cause I'm Retarded, that's why!

I saw my friend's pictures of her and her husband zip lining in Colorado and I instantly was jealous!


Raven:  "Why don't we do that?"

Dennis:  "Because we are smart!"

I find out there is a zip line place in OKC... how I missed this I will never know, but I began my tirade of bugging the crap out of Dennis until he said he would take me.  Mind you, he did not say he would do it.  Only that he would take me.  But in reality, I DID need someone to hold my shit and take pictures.  Thanks Dennis for being a chicken!  If he wasn't going to go then I had to enlist others.  It's no fun to experience these things alone.  Plus I needed someone up there to talk me into actually doing it!  So I asked our neighbors and our daughter and her fiance to come with me.  They were all up for the challenge!

The first part of the journey is walking up to the zip line which is like 80 ft up in the air.  And the steps are on the outside so it is like 14 stories step wise.  I have to stop and rest a few times, taking in the view, which was beautiful, but there was no railings and the higher I got the more freaked out it made me to be close to the edge.  I became a pole hugger!  Not my prouder moments!

Anyway, I get to the top and I am third in line with our group.  Ben keeps trying to hang over the edge and it stressed me out!  I threatened to spank him a few times which had no effect on him what so ever.  He even leaned further out with a grin on his face!

I got the "frillies" a few times, but I was not going to be swayed from my 1400 feet zip line experience.  Determination!  Plus after I walked up 7 flights of stairs I was too exhausted to walk back down them! So I asked the girl who was all up in my personal space as she was harnessing me up how deep  the river was that was under us... you know a Plan B...in case I fell.....  She said,  "Not too deep."

Great!  So much for plan B!  If I fall I will just die two horrible deaths.  Drowning and splattering!

Then she tells me that they had just gotten the rest of the dead bodies out of there so at least I didn't have to worry about running into anyone.

Silence.........
*blink blink*

What?!

She harnesses me up, and before I could think about it, I heard Ben say.  "Just don't look down." And I walked off the edge!  Have you ever walked off a edge?  Freedom and STUPID were the only two words I was thinking!

I was flying over the river.. in a somewhat uncomfortable harness still concerned about why there were dead bodies in the river to begin with when I saw Dennis down below me with the flash of a camera.  I wanted him to get a good shot, but all I could think of was..... if I spit, would it hit him?

 ......And then the wind turned me around making me fly backwards!

Me and Katie after we were done.

Okay, so what could be worst then flying... by a string... over body infested waters?

Flying backwards, by a string, over body infested waters and not being able to see if you were fixing to fly into the building you were hurdling towards!

At the other side when we change lines and go back to the landing dock... if you can call it that...I have to get my bearings.  They make me walk up more stairs and then after he hooks me up again tells me to walk off these steps that just lead to no where...  Like a plank on a pirates ship.   I was tired and needed to rest a second but Ben comes in behind me ready to plow me over and says... "You haven't gone yet!"  Cheeky boy!

All and all it was a fun experience.  Next time, I will have a Plan C though cause that whole body in the rivers conversation will haunt me.