ParaSailing

A new experience!

As I mentioned, this is something I have wanted to do for some time. We did an earlybird, (8:00am) flight and the weather was perfect. We had a choice of 400' or 800', and since I wasn't sure we would do again, we took the 800'. The flight was 10 minutes, which was just about perfect. Now I didn't take a tape measure, but as you can see, the rope was certainly long enough for us. We took off from, and landed on the boat. The picture of us is the landing. There was seven of us on the boat and you have a choice of going single or tandem. All in all, I was very impressed with how they do it. I watched parasailing in Mexico and they spent alot of time messing with the rope and the parachute. Our guys had great equipment, were very courteous and had been doing it for several years. Would you believe they have done up to 84 flights in one day!

This is the final week for one of our groups. Next weekend about 55 of our 110 participants will leave. We have enjoyed Regional presentations this week and all have been very interesting. The perecution that some suffer in their home countries for their faith is quite amazing. Hearing from independent countries of the former USSR, is also very interesting. We have Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan in the group that is finishing. Learning about the Middle East is also very topical, and we have Bahrain, Egypt and Jordan represented. The second group will do their presentations this week, so the different perspectives from the same Regions, but different presenters will be entertaining and educational.