Sitting in my old apartment with two of my favorite people, Amy and Sarah, we fell in love with an amazing idea based on a single question posed by 4 guys on a tv show: "What do you want to do before you die?" The Buried Life became one of our favorite shows. These guys created their bucket lists and went on an adventure to cross off each item while also helping others achieve something on their bucket lists. What a cool idea!
We all decided we should make our bucket lists. I started to make mine almost two years ago and am just now deciding its time for action!
Amy, Sarah, Jen and I decided a girls' weekend was just what we needed. We have all graduated from college and live in different places doing different things. We met up and went to Worlds of Fun in Kansas City. The first order of business...I wanted to conquer something on my bucket list. The item in question...#10: Conquer a Fear. When I was younger, my family would spend almost every weekend during the summer in Branson. We loved to camp with family friends, spending days on the lake and nights shopping and go-karting. Steve and his son John decided one night they would take on the Ozark Mountain Sky Coaster, a 100-foot tall super swing. The swing is a combination of skydiving and hang-gliding. Oh, and did I mention you have to pull the ripcord at 100 feet in the air and plummet to the ground below at 70 miles per hour?!?! At the time, I was mortified. I thought they had lost their minds! Ever since then I told myself I could never do something like that…that is until I made my bucket list. I decided I wanted to conquer a fear and the first thing that came to mind was that stupid 100-foot swing! So I decided that to cross off #10 on my list, I must conquer the swing.
The first ride we came to at Worlds of Fun was the Rip Cord, the exact super swing I was so scared of when I was a kid. So Jen, goodness knows I love her to death, said she’d go with me! Bless her soul. So, was I able to cross off #10? Well, check out the video:
We did it! It was one of the most fun, scary, crazy moments of my life! It was amazing and I would definitely do it again. Take that #10! Now, just 35 more to go…
For pictures of our Worlds of Fun (a.k.a. brush with death) adventure, click here.
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