New Zealand, Part II

New Zealand has a lot of offer in terms of adventure... the first ever bungy-jump was off the Eiffel Tower, and was a New Zealander. He then founded the first commercial bungy-jumping company, and the Kawarau Bridge jump is it. It's 43m in height, and is just outside of Queenstown. We decided to do the tandem jump together and though I knew it was going to be scary... it was about 100 times scarier than I thought. I was so not mentally prepared for it! (Not sure if anyone could be!) We got to the ledge and looking down at the blue turqoise river flowing beneath us, I thought I couldn't do it. But before I even had a chance to change my mind, they were counting "3-2-1" and we sort of fell over the edge and were in a free-fall.

The rush you get is so much more intense than a rollercoaster... I think having your entire body's blood pooling into your brain helps. :) We have a couple other shots but I need to scan them in...

After cruising Milford Sound, seeing waterfalls larger than the Niagara Falls, rainbows, dolphins, seals, and fiords, we took a short helicopter ride over the mountains and landed on a glacier! See how deep the snow is (up to our knees!)

This is what we saw when we looked around...