When we first talked about going on an adventure to Central America, we played the ziplining card pretty hard. The kids watched youtube videos of people doing it and were sold. When we moved to San Juan del Sur in August we had 9 months ahead of us and the thought of dropping $150 on 2 hours of fun had us putting it on hold. Then we left San Juan del Sur to visit with friends in Jinotega on October and see if we wanted to live up north and we decided we did. We were suddenly 4 hours away from San Juan del Sur's zipline. As the weeks (yikes) tick away till we return home to Washington we knew we had to get it done. So we planned a trip to San Juan del Sur to check some things off our to do list before we leave Nicaragua. In the morning we checked off "volunteer with the Biblioteca Movil" and in the afternoon we added "zip line canopy tour" to the list!
The pictures and video speak for themselves but we had a great time. We traveled to San Juan del Sur with our friends Jason and Karena and our neighbor (and friend) Raul drove us. All 8 of us went on the zipline tour. It's so much fun to do things with friends! It was a little intense sending my 3 kids off speeding on a zip line high in the air, but everyone did just fine (even me!). Gus told everyone after "there were all these rules and I thought that if you did one thing wrong, you would fall, so I was a little scared, but then it was fun!" I have to admit I was a little concerned too. But we all survived intact and with smiles on our faces. There were 16 cables totaling over 1.5 miles of cable. Some were long some were short some were fast and some were slower. It was awesome!!
Here's video of Joe and Bridget heading off on the first line
Here is Gus and Joey heading off too. I don't like the way Joey's left hand is off the cable when he first starts!
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