Elastic Can Be Your Friend

Today I went bungy jumping at Nevis Highwire Bungy. It's basically a 20-ish-person pod suspended over a valley (ravine? What's the difference?) on big wires, really big wires. Unfortunately for me, bungy jumping is a bit of a let down after skydiving. The first few seconds are awesome. It's still-air freefall, just like if you jumped off a building (at least, what I imagine it would be like), the rush from that was pretty amazing. Then the cord starts slowing you down, and it gets boring.

In other news, I left a battery in a charger at the hostel in Franz Josef, fortunately the camera I bought in Auckland uses the same stuff, but I was planning to give the camera to my folks if they wanted it, so I was trying to find camera stuff today. It's all ridiculously expensive. I never thought a battery and charger could cost so much. Needless to say, I skipped that particular purchase.

Hmmm, what else... I bought too many groceries. The hostel kitchen's fridge failed, and there wasn't much room in the room fridge, and didn't seem like it was keeping anything very cold. I survived.