Bungee Jumping, Drinking, and Traveling...what a great weekend!!!

Me in Macau!!!

Sorry I haven't written in a while guys.... BUT trust me it was worth the wait...at least for me!

So last week was our first week of school. It went really well. It's a lot of work, and we're quite busy all the time. Last friday was a staff day (pro-d-day) so Chelsey and I decided to take the long weekend and do a trip. We ended up going to Macau. Macau is a ferry boat west! And it's AMAZING.

Macau is like the Las Vegas of asia. It holds the largest casino in the world and is full of casinos and millions of lights.

We arrived on friday in the morning... and hung out for a bit in the big greek god casino hotel. We then got ready and headed out to the Macau Tower. The tower is the 5th highest free standing tower in the world! So we went up to the top, met some aussie and new zealand boys who were running the bungee jump thing.

I ended up bungee jumping off the tower. I BUNGEE JUMPED off a 233 Meter Jump, which is the HIGHEST bungee jump in the world!!! IN THE WORLD....ME.... JUMP.... AHHHhhhhhhhhh! It was AMAZING! I can not tell you how petrified I was standing at the edge of the platform...looking down. It's SOOOO different. I mean it looks high when there is glass and metal keeping you in the tower, and then it's about 10x higher when there is NOTHING to hold on to, and you're about to launch yourself off the edge. I have a video, that i'll try to get some pics off of.... i can't tell you how amazing it was!


A little blurry but us getting ready for the night (and morning) ahead!

That night, Chelsey and I went out to the mgm grand bar. We met some russian girl, and had a few drinks. Then we watched some live music. We ended up meeting a few guys that were drinking nad partying a bit. We sat down and ended up drinking with them until about 3am and the club kind of closed down. We moved into the casino. They gave us some money to gamble with, and we ended up paying for our entire trip and drinking for free in the casino all night. One of the guys was the manager at one of the casinos and got us a free suite at one of the hotels. It was GORGEOUS!!!! We got into the hotel at 7am (oops).


The hotel suite on the 38th floor view!

Saturday we slept most of the day and then went out at night just for a bit... came home, slept a little more so that we could wake up early for sunday. Sunday we went to the Coloane island. We went to the Coloane cultural centre. It was AMAZING. IT was this beautiful gorgeous temple. We met a group of women and a couple men, that were traveling from Thailand, so we chatted with them. The temple was so beautiful and amazing and they had TURTLES! After the temple we went to the A-Ma Satue. It's a gorgeous carving 20m tall overlooking the city.


The temple!

After the cultural centre, we went to Hak-Sa beach, a beach of black sand. It was really cool! The sunday market in Taipa was really fun and cool too. Macau was a portuguese settlement up until about 10 years ago, so it was really need to see the Portuguese influence.


The A-Ma statue and me!

I have included some pics in the blog post, but if i keep talking about it all, you guys will be bored out of your mind! The bottom line, is I am crazy and jumped off the highest bungee jump, and we saw some great cultural things, and paid for our trip! Don't you hate me a little bit that I made you read the whole post, and you got the summary in one sentence in the end? muah aha haha ....


This is just a picture from a poorer part of Taipa Island, and I liked it. I have so many more pictures, but I can't include them all! :-(

What a great weekend!