It's been a hot minute since I've been able to sit down and write. We put our house up on the market last week, then left for vacation, so it's been a busy few weeks! Which has seriously been cutting into my bucket list items. And let's just be real, there were several (many) days thrown in there where I literally did nothing and stayed in pjs all day. Sometimes we just need those days, right? Right. (just agree with me and let's move on...) ANYWAY. Vacation. We went down to Orange Beach, AL with my side of the family for a week. It. Was. Hot. I mean I'm not sure what I was expecting, it's July in the South. We had a really great time, spent most of our time in the pool and eating too much food. Our last full day, which was also Danny's 29th birthday, we decided, what the heck, let's go parasailing. I've always wanted to try something like this, we're here, why not?? OH MAN. Let me preface by saying that it had been SO windy the entire week. It seemed to have died down a little that morning, so we set it up and went on our way. Got all our paper work filled out, the "your family can't sue us if you fall out of your harness and a shark eats you" type of paperwork. Got our life jackets on (Fun fact: this picture of Danny and I was the only picture I actually took during this whole adventure) We got on the boat, started toward the Gulf from the bay, the boat driver says "Does anyone get seasick?" I have gotten seasick before (not to mention I basically spent my entire pregnancy with Lola feeling seasick all.the.time.) Everyone said no so of course I wasn't going to be a big baby so I said no too. Then he responded with "well, today would be the day to get seasick." Apparently in my plan to go parasailing, I completely disregarded the whole getting out into the actual water thing, that I didn't even think that it was probably going to be really choppy with how windy it had been. YALL. The second we got out on the Gulf, I thought, this was it for me. I was flopping through the boat holding on for dear life. It was miserable. The deck hand said that in the five years he's been doing this, it was probably the second roughest water he had ever seen. Awesome. So glad I'm here to experience that with you, guy. We were third in line to go up and I was just praying to sweet Jesus I wouldn't throw up off the side of the boat. Finally it's our turn to go up, I'm pumped because everyone before had said how smooth and nice it was up there, which sounds incredible at this point with all the previous flopping through the boat. We got up in the air, I think he said it was about 600 feet, and it is beautiful. Seriously really beautiful. I was expecting to see a whole bunch of sharks, but surprisingly I didn't see any! It was windy but still not as bad as being in that boat, so I wasn't complaining. But then a huge gust of wind hit us and I swear it felt like we were about to get dumped face first into the Gulf of Mexico. From 600 friggin feet. No thank you. I looked at Danny and said "I literally never want to do this ever again." to which he responded "Yeah no never again." We spent roughly 8-10 minutes in the air, got dunked about waist high into the water, and then got back on the boat. This is where things turned south quickly. One more group had to go up, so we had probably 20 more minutes till it was over. That's when it hit me. That "Oh my goodness this is going to happen with all these strangers staring at me" feeling. I tapped Danny on the shoulder, while getting pounded in the face by huge waves of water, and he quickly realized I was about to lose it. He asked if I could sit in the lower spot at the back of the boat, apparently sitting lower helps? Yeah whatever. I did what I prayed wouldn't happen. I was THAT GIRL who threw up off the side of the boat. I knew in writing this blog and challenging myself to a bunch of new experiences that there was sure to be a few that I didn't like. That's the whole point, right? I guess I just didn't expect it to happen on challenge two. I basically hated everything about parasailing, but to be fair, if the water hadn't been so choppy (red flags - high hazard) and it hadn't been so windy, I'm sure my experience would have been MUCH different. I am so glad I did it, to have that once in a lifetime experience, to share this crazy story with you guys, to laugh about it now. But yes, never ever ever going to do that ever ever again -K
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Rachel
7/30/2016 11:31:31 am
Can I make list of 30 things I'm not going to do in my 30th year and put this on the top?! 😂 So proud of you though!
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