An Introduction/One Week Until Departure

Since I was foolish enough not to bring a camera with me on my travels to Ireland I have decided to embrace technology to the full extent of the law this time around and keep a travel journal in the form of a blog and an online Picasa web album. In addition, I plan to upload as many cool videos as I can to Facebook, the first of which will concern our bungees. Yes, It's official. Kelsey and I have booked the '5 pack'. By this I mean 4 bungee jumps (or bungy jumps, as it is spelled in New Zealand) and one ''swing'', the highest commerically run swing in the world. To add an exclamation point to our insanity, we are doing the first bungee on the day we arrive. If everyone would collectively say a prayer for us at 2:30pm Auckland time on Tuesday April 26th that would be lovely. This 40m jump off the Auckland Harbour Bridge is the first in a series which will culminate with the pants-soilingly high Nevis jump in Queenstown on the South Island which is a mere 134m (to put this in perspective, that is the equivalent of jumping off the top of the Telus building in downtown Edmonton). Hopefully this first post has set the mood for what is to come and piqued your interest for further posts to come. That is all for now, this is Colin signing off.