Friday, September 3, 2010

The Klimeks Meet BigFoot! {Alternately Titled: The Dells: Day One}

We took a end-of-summer vacation to Wisconsin Dells last weekend for a "last hurrah" before school started and we had to say goodbye to summer. Our mini-vacation started early Friday morning when we left the house bright and early to get to the Dells for our 11 am departure on the BigFoot Ziplines!
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Jamie and the kids are all geared-up and ready to go! ~~~
Here is me and the kids--all harnessed up. I was scared to death and the rest of the family was excited and couldn't wait to hit the ziplines!
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This is a map of the lines...
We did six lines and it took a total of about 3 hours. Through the trees, over water--it was breathtaking!
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Abz had a blast riding the lines...
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Andrew coming in fast to the end, where Peter, one of our tour guides, waits to "catch" him.
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Austin had no fear flying over the water!
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Jamie was the official photographer during our excursion. He had a blast watching everyone zoom down the lines! He also had fun on the lines himself--taking running jumps, falling off the tower backwards, and hanging from the line upside down!
(Which, by the way, we ALL did those "tricks"--yep! Even Abz and I!)
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Here is Austin flipping upside down while on the line!
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This is Andrew hanging upside down in mid-air!
(Clicking on the picture will enlarge it a bit--we couldn't bring our "good" camera on the lines, so we used our old digital and our camera phones...)
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Abz hanging in the middle of nowhere!
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The Klimie Kids on top of one of the towers...
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And here is me--Shana--hanging over the water...
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The last run was a dual run, so two people were able to race! Generally, the heavier of the two would win the race (physics, you know!), and our family proved that to be true...
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Jamie and Abz race to the finish line...~~~
The Klimie Brothers race to the end...
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We had a fun time flying through the sky as a family!
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2 comments:

Pat said...

Wow, I didn't even know that adventure was down there....glad it was last weekend and not this COLD one!

The Dorwin's said...

I like the pictures of the zipliners! This will be fun to do with the boys when they get older!