I'm pretty sure everyone out there has a bucket list. Whether you call it that or not, everyone has a list of things that they want to do before they die...or "kick the bucket" as the film of the same name so gloriously proclaimed. Mine is pretty normal I think...go to Greece, touch all 7 continents at least once, parasail...oh wait...I JUST DID THAT! Feeling rather adventurous the other day, I packed up and hit Tahoe for a day trip and decided that parasailing was something I just HAD to try.
Lake Tahoe is only about two hours from where I live, making it the closest water to us. Anyway, one of my friends (who you may recognize from my wine tasting pictures) and I drove up to the lake for the day to hang out and enjoy our day off. We were planning to hang out, have lunch, drink a little and lounge around on the beach...maybe rent a stand up paddle board if we were feeling a little adventurous. Just a pretty lowkey day.
Except about 10 minutes into our lunch at The Beacon in Camp Richardson (SO good!), we see a parasail float by. We decided maybe we would like to try that. So to our phones we went and found a $55 parasail ride (which is a pretty solid price compared to other parasail options I've seen) and called. Somehow on the crazy busy week of the 4th of July, they had an opening at 1:30. And that was it. We were off to Ski Run to sign paperwork and meet the boat.
Now here's the funny part of the story, we assumed, being people who have never parasailed before, that you land in the water when you're done and the boat picks you up. So we show up at the boat in bathing suits and just bathing suits. Granted, we already had them on under our clothes, but still, compared to the rest of the group on the boat...we were a little underdressed.
The process itself is pretty simple. You get strapped into a harness and a life vest and then you head to the back of the boat and get strapped into the parachute. You sit on the back and once it catches the wind, you're off. We went up at 200 feet and it was honestly one of the most peaceful experiences I've had in my life. You're just up there, floating watching the water underneath you.
Luckily, one of the guys on the boat was nice enough to take a TON of pictures for us. So we have plenty of documentation of being in the air.
Once you're done, you just hang out on the boat while the rest of the group goes up. It was super relaxing and the guys had great taste in music so even sitting around watching other people go was fun. We're going back this week actually to go again. So there may be even more pictures. Or I'll do a week in the life of my phone post and you'll see them there. For now, here are the pictures from the first time I went :)
The before, sitting on the boat.
Pretty sure he's telling us to keep our legs bent and not stand up so we don't get a para-wedgie.
Ready for takeoff!
And then you're up!
Meet our captain, haha!
Oh yeah, they dunked our feet. I thought Connie was going to freak out.
As you can tell by her legs (on the left), she wasn't happy about it.
Obviously, I had to take a picture with the mermaid fountain.
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