I am afraid of heights.
Not as much as I am afraid of spiders.
Well... maybe...
I went to Australia a couple of years ago, and it was an
absolute wonderful experience. The country is just gorgeous. What I liked the
best was the fact that about every two days we had a different scenery. One day
we would be at the shore looking at the sea and see the sun go down, the other
day we would be in the middle of a rain forest. Well at least I thought it was
a rain forest, it sure was hot and humid!
We saw mountains and we saw cows (of course) and very
very disappointing, I have to admit, only ONE kangaroo, and I don’t even think
it was a kangaroo but a walibi (big difference)! But we did see some koala’s
which made up for the lack of kangaroos.
Everything was just fantastic until the day we got the “genius”
idea to do something different…
This something different was us scouting for fun things to do on our
way from one destination to the other, we needed some exercise as well and since we already
walked besides the shore (where we found
out we really needed good shoes, walking gear AND drinking water) and the desert (which was just HOT again with crazy amounts
of flies, EVERYWHERE but at least we brought water that time) we were very pleased when we saw a sign that said “Tree
Top Walks” and an explanation of what a three top walk was (which is a path in the top of the trees, man made, which meant the path was made out of metal with little see true holes in the bottom and attached with cables and/or
laying on TALL round posts and SWAYING) and... some stunning pictures.
Being a little naive and blown away by the great pictures
(good advertisement on their part) I thought this would help me get over my
fear of heights and so I said “Ok, let’s do it!”
I really should have known better.
The beginning was not so bad. The “path” started out at “ground level”, but
quickly the dirt was not there anymore and we were up in the air. Yes, as long
as I would look straight forward and went from tree to tree, it wasn’t so bad…
But of course that was NOT the only thing I did.
Nooooo I had to look down, see how those cables where
attached to those trees, and because I saw the cables I saw us moving slowly
from the right to the left and back, and I did a little calculation that those
posts on which this metal path WITH SEE TRUE HOLES was attached too was defiantly not
strong enough to keep us up there!!!
Doing all this math is not a good thing when you are up 60 feet (i don't know how high we were, it was HIGH to me) in the
air and afraid of heights….
Half way true the “walk” I decided I didn’t get no air
anymore… “Well, and that I really was afraid and never ever should have attempt
something as dumb as this”. But of course it was a bit too late for that and I hurried
on down the half mile path… pushing
everybody out of my way and yelling to keep following me!
Do you know how long half a mile is?
It's pretty far…
I got to the other end and just went on my knees and
cried like a little baby. You should have seen the looks on the faces of the other
people that came of that path, they for sure thought I lost my mind, but I just
could not stop myself! And just as a
reminder, you shouldn’t believe the people who tell you you look lovely after
bawling your eyes out for 15 minutes either. Lucky for me the whole thing was a loop and so
I didn’t have to go back over that path to get to the car and face more people.
Which would have added more shame upon embarrassment…
We went for some more scenery seeing in the safety of our car… which was just fine with me! I
didn’t need no more exercise anyway that day…
I really love trees, love them in my yard, besides the
roads, in forests, in pictures or paintings, with leafs or without leafs, but I
am never going to attempt to do a three top walk again, EVER!!! There are just
some things a girl sound not attempt twice…
...
Monday is coming closer and closer but I don’t quite know
if that is a good thing or a bad thing… Guess we will find out soon! I did do some fun things (laying in the yard watching the cats play, called a bunch of good friends and chatted, went pantie shopping with my little sister. I worked at the farm, my little brother is getting really good at cracking those numbers. And read a lot of beautiful blogs, and i am soaking up all the LOVING you guys give me... Everything is going to be just fine...
