Zip - A - Dee - Line???

We began our day determined to do nothing but enjoy our infinity pool and our cocktails - we decided to make our arrangements to go whale watching on Friday. As the arrangements were being made somehow Zip Lining came up....that has been on Marge's bucket list for years so what the hotel? We signed on for the 3:00 run and kept on swimming. Sooner rather than later the time came to leave our pool and put on real clothes and head out. When we got to the "place" I have to say I was thinking "Of all the places to zip line - this is not pretty country!" It was the desert but that is where we were. So we get there and get all geared up and start thinking "OK - where are the zip lines?" First the guides or the "poppies" as they refer to themselves gave us the scoop on how to zip line then they said "Are you ready for your Extreme Adventure?" We politely shook our heads NO and Poppie said "OK follow us" - thus began the climb of our lives. We had to freakin' mountain climb to get to the first zip. By the time we got there the four of us were winded. All of the other people were quite a bit younger than us and they just marched up that hill like old age would never catch them. So we did our first zip line which was scary but once you got out there it was pretty fun. Only after we got done with this zipper we had to hike again to the next one and this hike was vertical! Now mind your the guides kept saying to the four of us "come on mama you have nothing to worry about poppie is here to take care of you" so as we are walking up the hill here comes poppie - I tell him to go ahead of me. Well apparently poppie thought I was about to expire because he got on his walkie talkie and started talking majic. Low and behold when it was time to zip this line he said "Mary Lou, Mary Lou you come now. You will go first. There will be an ATV waiting for you at the end of this line to take you to the next zipper". Well I felt kind of stupid, like what was wrong with me? BUT I didn't reject the ride!!! So as Marge, Sue and Caroline huffed and puffed I was on the back of an ATV getting a very nice tour of the mountain. So we zipped and lined all over that mountain and then we came to a place where we had to cross this rickey rope bridge for the last run. Only once we got over there it was really to repel down the face of the mountain!!! Yes you heard me - I said REPEL! In our group there were 7 women and 5 men. As I stated earlier the other women were younger than us and lets face in a lot better shape than me. I was surprised when one of the buff young things got up to the edge of the cliff and walked away saying "I can't do it - I can't do it" The four of us kept ourselves tethered to the rope and waited our turn. Wouldn't you know the next buff gal did the same thing!!! Couldn't do it. Now it was Carolyn's turn and she couldn't do it either! I thought "I don't think I can do it!" Next up was Sue and she went over the side of the mountain like a man! Now it's my turn and I followed her and went down the cliff into the blue abyss. Marge came up and went over the top too. We were all pretty darn happy with ourselves. We got back to the top of the mountain for our last zip and one of the buff girls who didn't repel looked at me and said "I can't believe you did it Mary Lou!" I looked at her and said "I'm not a chicken - just out of shape!" That shut her buff ass up pretty quickly!! We did our final zip and took our sorry asses home!