Bungee

My younger daughter, Jamie — a student at Oklahoma Christian University, has been in their study abroad program this semester.  By December 6, she will have spent weeks in China, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia.  She is presently in New Zealand.  The other day she called and said she would be in Hong Kong for four days.  I emailed my friend Eric Yip who lives in Hong Kong.  He sent me a list of some places that she might want to visit in four days.  I thought it was a great list.

 
She called the other day and told me that she had made another stop while she was in Hong Kong.  She went to Macau to bungee jump off the Macau Tower.  Hmmm.  This wasn’t on Eric’s list.  The conversation went something like this on the telephone.

 
"Hey Dad.  I did something yesterday that you won’t believe.  I probably shouldn’t tell you.  I mean — I don’t think you would ever do this."

 
"Okay."

 
"I’m going to tell you.  I bungee jumped off the Macau Tower."

 
"You did?"

 
"Just look online, Dad.  You won’t believe it."

 
She was right.  I couldn’t believe it.  Oh my.  I could just imagine seeing my child fall off this tower.  (By the way, this was her first bungee jump.)  

 
What is going through my head?  I am thinking, "Why?"  She was right of course.  There is no way I am going to free fall from a tower that almost touches the heavens while I depend upon a total stranger to make sure I live through this.  Uhhh — no.  (My apologies in advance to those of you who are into this and who know there is a thrill to this.)

 
There is one good thing about this.

I am thankful that I didn’t know about this until afterward.  🙂

 
(Note: Several days after posting this, Jamie left a comment on this post.  Be sure to read it.)