Here's an email my mom sent about one she got from my brother (who is in on a canada/alaska trip with mamaw)

It made me laugh so I thought I'd share:

"Below is an email we received from Aaron. Today they went ziplining thru the Alaska Rainforest Sanctuary. They went on 6 different ziplines all at treetop level and across ravines. At one point they were 300 feet above the ground. They also had to cross two swinging bridges. Most of you know of Mamaw's fear of heights. Aaron was not helping and was shaking every possible wooden platform and bridge he could to scare her.. Evil Aaron.

I must preface his email by telling you the ordeal we all had to go thru to make the ziplining excursion possible. Everyone from the travel agent, the excursion booking agent and the cruise agent neglected to catch the fact that they would need a guardianship release form from me for Aaron on these dangerous excursions. So, our medical release form did not do the trick. So, today I had friends over in the pool and we just happened to get out of the pool when my phone rang. Aaron said I needed to get a fax from the Rainforest Sanctuary, sign it and fax it back within 20 minutes. It was a NIGHTMARE.. We only have the ability to accept faxes thru email, so I had to upgrade our service to be able to fax out. During my panic to upgrade, their fax machine stopped working. They were on the phone with me, holding up two busses full of tourist waiting for us to get this release form to them. Otherwise, they were not going to let them go. Finally, as we were scrambling around and time was out, I convinced the very nice tourguide to let them get on the bus, we would get the fax to the office and the office could call him when they received it. They agreed but warned us that if they didn't get it, Mamaw and Aaron would be sitting at the bus for 3 hours.

Mamaw said the ziplining was most scared she has EVER been. She said it was an amazing adventure, but was terrifying. Aaron LOVED it.. Here is his email.

'The zipline was definitely worth the trouble we had to go through. Mamaw was scared, I was shaking the platforms and bridges the whole time. We do have picture proof, but unfortunately we forgot to bring the camera to take a video. The weather has been a bit dreary (according to mamaw) but i like the cold very much. our room is colder than outside (also according to mamaw). Mamaw is glad that the food is free because she wouldnt be able to feed me otherwise. The food is actually really good. We have seen plenty of mountains so far, and taken many pictures. We also saw a lot of eagles in ketchikan (sp). We should see plenty of glaciers tomorrow. Please forward this to anyone else who cares.'

I must share something else Mamaw told me. She had trouble stopping her zipline with the handbrakes for her landings on the platform so a nice young man would have to grab her across the chest everytime to stop her. She later told one of the girl workers that the man now knows her bra cup size.. The girl laughed so hard and said "well, at least you gave him a thrill for the day.." Mamaw told her "Honey, I am quite sure there was nothing thrilling about it..!" "



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