Saturday, March 29, 2008

The Gorge Swing

So we are still in Livingstone right now - we had to stay an extra day...unfortunately what the Lilongwe doctor thought was a minor infection was in fact quite major, and Regan needed to have additional care in a clinic here, so we had to stay an extra day. She is doing well now and will be looked at again in Lilongwe.
Since we mostly saw the inside of the clinic on Thursday and Friday and Regan's energy levels were back up, we decided to do something more adventurous on Friday, so we went to Fifth Gorge, where I did the gorge swing and Regan and Jules did the flying fox.
The flying fox is basically a zip line that you do in a flying superman-like position - you have to run off the platform then soar over the canyon. Regan and Jules did it in style. The gorge swing is sort of like a bungi, but the cord doesn't stretch as much, and at the end you swing rather than bounce...still it does involve walking off a cliff...my knees went weak at one point and I thought I wouldn't be able to get myself to walk off, but in the end, I did it!!!
It was great fun, and now it is Sunday morning and we are off to the clinic for one last shot, then on to Lusaka, where we plan to watch a MOVIE...in a THEATER!!! (There is not a single theatre in all of Lilongwe).

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