Zip-lining Through France

Do you know what one of my favorite things we have done yet is?  Zip-lining through France!

We were at a castle and Mom and Dad were saying things to each other like, “Are you sure its open? Its starting to sprinkle.” I asked them, “What are you guys talking about?” Dad answered, “Its a surprise!” I was very exited after that. Later on that day, we drove to a hill and at the top of the hill, there was a bunch of trees. We started walking up and by then, I was DIEING to know what the surprise was! When we were half way up the small hill, I saw a kid fly through the trees. “WOAH!” I yelled. I ran up and saw things like rope ladders, tight ropes, and zip-lines going from tree to tree! I had been waiting for this for months, but thought wed have to wait until south africa!

The man strapped me, Ellie, Mom and Dad in to the gear. It was pretty hard figuring out how to strap ourselves in but we got the hang of it. There were 4 levels: Green (easy), Yellow, (intermediate), Blue (hard), and Red (extreme)! By the time we finished green, we all said, “This is supposed to be easy?”

In yellow, my favorite part was sort of a rope swing into basically a giant spiderweb! At the end of yellow, there was 2 ways to go: To the left to exit or to the right to do blue! We thought for a few minutes. It had already been over an hour. Mom, Dad, and Ellie were really thinking about what to do while I was jumping up and down saying, “BLUE!!! LETS DO BLUE!!!” We decided to do blue.

At the end of blue, there was a zip-line that went 30 seconds long, over a lake to a whole other island! That one was so cool because you saw the view of the water! There was another one going back and I tried to touch the water but I couldn’t. When Dad went, his hand was almost a centimeter away from touching it! It was so much fun! I will never forget the first time I zip-lined in France!

Sorry there are no pictures. We didn’t want to risk dropping our phones into the lake. We did get a hat though!