{"id":1290,"date":"2014-05-11T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/11\/have-i-mentioned\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T13:28:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:28:53","slug":"have-i-mentioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/11\/have-i-mentioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Have I mentioned …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026 that I’m afraid of heights? Yup. I used to take students to Europe every couple of years, and it was such fun \u2014 until I had to go up into the Eiffel Tower or something else that was very tall. Cue the wet palms and racing heart \u2014 I just tried to breathe deeply and endure<\/i>. LOL! Given time, I could work my way from the central “spine” of the Eiffel Tower to the outer edge, which is enclosed by mesh to prevent people attempting to fly. \ud83d\ude09 However, I wasn’t really comfortable.<\/p>\n

Fast forwarding to the present day, I’ve just come home from a cruise to the Caribbean, which I booked with several friends in order to take quilting classes onboard. We were on an enormous ship, the Oasis of the Seas, and they have a zip line onboard. Okay, I figured that, if I was ever going to do a zip line (and I’d heard they were really fun), this would be the best place to do it, since the ship’s crew has a vested interest in keeping the guests alive and well, right?<\/p>\n

My husband of almost 42 years pooh-poohed the idea, never believing for a minute that I’d actually go through with the plan. But I DID! And I have the video to prove it, courtesy of one of my friends.<\/p>\n

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That’s me in the crash helmet and harness! I have to say that, once I got past the part where I had to look down (way<\/i>\u00a0down) in order to plant my feet for the “launch”, it was really fun sailing over an open space that ended about a dozen floors below me.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2026 that I’m afraid of heights? Yup. I used to take students to Europe every couple of years, and it was such fun \u2014 until I had to go up into the Eiffel Tower or something else that was very tall. Cue the wet palms and racing heart \u2014 I just tried to breathe deeply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[224],"class_list":{"0":"post-1290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-travel","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-kO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5455,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/15\/another-mug-rug\/","url_meta":{"origin":1290,"position":0},"title":"Another mug rug","author":"Sandy","date":"September 15, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I've had this design for a couple of months and finally got around to making it today. 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