Holy Crap.

Holy crap! Today was the day when MacKenzie went Canyoning and had the time of her life. I am not sure if many of you know this.. but I am slightly scared of heights. Just looking down and knowing that you could potentially fall off this high thing just really freaks me out. But for those of you who don't know, Canyoning is like you go into a canyon.. that has a river... and jump off high stuff... Well the sudden cliffs and water falls. You will just casually be walking along and its like "Oh, hey there cliff. I guess I have to jump off you now into the water below." 
The day started off just so beautifully. We had staff prayer, then breakfast where I burnt my wrist on the toaster, then I watched people set the tables while I drank some coffee and was glad that I didn't have to on my day off, then it was wet suit time (I guess you aren't supposed to be able to move in them or something...) and then it was car ride time! I was one of the fortunate few who got to sit in the lovely Audi car while everyone else was crammed in huge vans. We sang oldies songs and talked about the Pope. So we get there, most people find a good bush to pee in then it is wetsuit time again! You feel a little bit like Spiderman in this crazy skin tight item of clothing that you walk like a penguin in. And they gave us these gloves that were just so huge and thick that if you were to slap someone it would probably be fatal. 
So now we approach this steep mountain side that we have go down and we go boy, girl, boy, girl so that the guys can catch the girls when they fall. We get inside the canyon and it is SO beautiful. Like holy crap, gorgeousness everywhere you look, and I start freaking out a bit in my head like holy crap. How high are these things going to be? But Nat encouraged me and made me super pumped up :D Go Nat. And we started! 
It was so incredible. The first jump was maybe like... 2 metres? So not too high but still. The next jump was like.... 6 metres? And there was just whirl pool made from the water moving and I got caught in it and went around this pool like 8 times. It was so fun. I tried to get out like 3 times maybe? Failing each time. And in between these jumps there was like deep stream that you swam or floated in and these little natural water slides! Then the biggest jump was.. about 8 metres! I had to surprise myself to jump off of it. Think about something else and then your body just pushes yourself off the cliff. It is a trick that I have trained my body to do. :D Then we swam for ages and almost died from hypothermia but still having fun and singing and dancing whenever we could stand in order to keep the blood moving! We had to go under a rather large water fall that we had to follow a rope under. At one point it felt like we were in Jurassic Park and that at any moment a t-rex was going to come around the corner and eat you or squish you. So that was fun. And at the end there was even this bridge that you could climb up to jump off and I did it twice :D I consider myself a jumping junkie now. I am still a little high on adrenaline.. if you can't tell. 
So we got out and ran back cause 3 of us stayed behind to jump off the bridge, and of course in order to make the running epic we sang the Chariots of Fire song. So everyone is getting changed. The guys behind the van while the girls just you know, casually on the side of the road get changed. But Caroline and I used our brains and went under a bridge. :D We of course stopped at McDonalds on the way back and I enjoyed some glorious curly fries while I was super pumped on adrenaline and coffee and everyone else was like dying all tired like. Good stuff. I spend 10 minutes trying to decide what drink to buy.. Lauren laughing at me. And I think the girl behind the counter was rather amused as well. Driving home time! I was still pretty pumped and talking... a lot... and Martin goes, "MacKenzie never gets tired does she?" then 10 minutes later I crashed a little and was like falling asleep looking out the window. I just had to show them all that I was human too. Such a Holy Crap perfect awesome mind-blowing radical fantastic incredible amazing day. Best Day #2.