The Canopy Tour

Canopy Tour with JWBender99 & Raquel
On Sunday we had quite an action packed day.  After ATV riding we left to go on our Canopy tour.  It was a slow tourist day for Ecoglide so only 2 other people were in our group, James & Raquel.  Raquel was from Costa Rica and she and James live in California where they met.  Oddly enough Raquel's mother and aunt came along for the trip even though they were not going to ride with us.  It turns Mom and Aunt were integral parts to this vacation since they were 2 of 3 videographers! James & Raquel had video taped EVERYTHING from their trip and now they were going to do the same with the canopy tour.  Her mom got one angle, the aunt was taking photos, and James was using his Flip cam to get the whole scene. 

At some point in the journey we became part of this action and started getting interviewed.  They video taped me coming in from a particularly long zip line and when I landed on the platform I found a video camera inches away from my face and James asking "CLARA?!  How was it?!  How do you feel?  Still scared of heights!! WOOOO YEAH!"  I had no idea what to say so I just said "WOW!  Well that was awesome" and tried to turn away.  There was no escaping from James since he followed me to the next zip and said "Clara are you nervous?  What up...are you going to rock this or what?!"  Then Kris came in and James walked around me to video and narrate.  "Here comes Kris!...the man!  Yeah check that guy out."  Kris was hamming it up and as he slid into the platform he said "Comin' in hot!"  No idea what that meant but James loved it.  There were a few times when James was so busy getting safety checked that he forgot to video Raquel.  Both of them at times shouted at each other "GET THE VIDEO!!!  TURN THE CAMERA ON!!!  GET THE VIDEO BABE!!"  They also shouted down instructions to her family members, who they thought were within hearing distance a few hundred feet below, to get multiple shots for the final video. 

At the 9th zip line James informed us that we were going to be a part of their You Tube video and he promised to upload it soon. "It'll be on my You Tube name JWBender99...here write it down!"  Both Kris and I were really excited that they were so sweet to include us but unsure of what this video would entail since we later saw them at the hot springs and Raquel's mom was getting action shots of them under the waterfall making out with them shouting between takes "Ready babe?!  Ready?  MOM GET THE VIDEO!!!"