Friday, October 14, 2011

ZOOOOOOM!



Do you know how it feels to zip line? The wind rushing into your face, the trees and valleys flying by below you! Soaring over a rushing river that is traveling down a mountain! The feeling of fear as you’re strapped to a wire and pushed off a landing 20 stories above the ground and feeling as if your falling for about a minute, as you travel along about 2000 ft of wire?

This is what my father and I did why we were in Whistler, Canada! My mom, dad and I took a vacation up in Canada just last summer! It was so much fun, but my favorite part was definitely zip lining! We went on a series of eight zip lines, traveling over the valleys of the Black Comb Mountains! Below us was a rushing river and thousands of pine trees! There was even a downhill mountain biking course, right below the last two lines! Our guides were really cool and we had a group of about 10 people with us! There’s nothing better than the feeling of flying through the sky!


Although just plain zip lining would have been great fun we were also given the opportunity to go down the wire upside down, backwards, spinning in circles, and any other way you can think of! Lets just say your hands and feet did not have to stay inside the vehicle at all times! The longest zip line was 2 miles over a rushing river below! If you held your body in the cannon ball position you can get going so fast your ears ring! Even though your going super speed you still have plenty of time to look around its as if your traveling in slow motion! It’s an experience like no other and I only hope others will get the opportunity to have wings and fly. I cant wait till my next zip!
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KITTY!

If you weren’t able to tell by my last two blogs, I love animals! My favorite animal is a cat and that’s all thanks to my adorable fat cat, Otis! When I was only two, my siblings and me were walking around my grandparent’s farm. While we were exploring and enjoying the wonderful smell of cow dung (just kidding it smells terrible!) we came across two little kittens on the edge of my grand parents land! They were so cute and little so we decided we wanted to keep them! When we brought them back to the house my Grandpa said we had to keep them and he insisted we take both of them home with us, but my mother only wanted one! My father then went on to sneak the other kitten in the back of the car when my mom wasn’t looking! After about 8 years, Emil had a stroke and was put down, but Otis is still going strong!

A few years after that, my siblings and I were wondering around in the woods near our house! We started hearing meowing and found two little kittens lying under a pine tree! We took them home and fed them and ended up keeping them for a few days, but my parents said we couldn’t keep them! So rather than giving them to the pound, where they may never get adopted, we gave them to our neighbors! They kept both of them and Blizzard and Shadow both lived good happy lives!

After that we really didn’t find that many more animals! There were two more kittens both at different times in different places, but because we couldn’t keep them they both ended up at the pound! My sister and me even found three newly born kittens before the owner even knew her cat was pregnant! My sister and I also found a fair share of chipmunks, but we never kept them for more than a few hours! One of them even jumped on my head trying to escape its bucket! 
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