L0p3z and Neno's Upside-Down Adventure: Well I'm the king of the swingers

We took an Intercity bus from Wanaka to Queenstown, the bus driver was full of information about the area, he wasn't your average bus driver. Our hostel was pretty nice and we could even see the lake if we craned our necks at the window. We spent the afternoon walking around town reacquainting ourselves with the town. Unfortunately the rain came so we holed up in a bar for the evening watching a band. The coolest thing about the bar was the motion activated TVs hidden in the glass in the men's toilets.

Paddle Steamer on Lake Wakatipu - Queenstown

Lake Wakatipu - Queenstown

The next morning we checked out as Caroline and Howard were joining us later and we had booked a holiday flat in the town. Hanna was also joining us from Auckland for the weekend. When she arrived we went for lunch and presented her early birthday surprise, a canyon swing. She was shocked and needed a couple of ciders to settle her down. Janine had done one of these a few years ago so was official photographer but I was also planning to jump off a cliff tied to a bit of rope. Once the parents had arrived we took a walk around the lake before heading of to do our jumps. The canyon swing is the worlds highest cliff jump at 109m, with a 60m freefall. Hanna went first as she claimed she would be able to wait on the platform and watch me go first. She took her time to be eased out over the ledge. But was soon flying down the cliff face. A mixture of bravado and stupidity meant I had picked one of the scarier jumps, hands behind the back, straight off the edge. Janine took much pleasure in reminding me after that my hands lasted about half a second before shooting to hold on to the rope in front. After the jumps adrenaline was pumping so we decided to go again, this time in tandem. Although Hanna needed some persuasion to actually jump. Once we are back on the solid ground of Queenstown we headed out for dinner with the parents to show them the photos of the jumps.