Holy SHNIKIES!!!!!!!

My birthday was yesterday and Clark had this elaborate surprise for me. I had NO idea where we were going or what we were doing! Clark's sister, Liz, took Lils and Ebay for the the day and Clark, Rose, and I just started driving. I kept trying to guess where we were headed, what we were doing... nothing made sense! Then I noticed we were getting closer and closer to San Francisco... then past the city to this random beach/cliff area where I saw some large kites.... "are we going to go fly some large kites, Clark?" I asked, teasing, thinking we had made a wrong turn... "wait a minute those aren't kites", I thought... "ARE WE GOING HANG GLIDING????!!!!!" I SCREAMED!!!!! YES! We were going hang gliding!!! Clark had been planning this for a month! I have always wanted to go and when Dave was in Brazil two years ago and went hang gliding in Rio De Janeiro, I almost killed him!!! :) But yesterday was my turn! It was really cold and windy in San Fran, but I didn't care... plus, I was really glad it was windy! :)

We met Gordon, the pilot, and I signed my life away on some forms. Then I got strapped in and we ran off the cliff! What a feeling! It was incredible! Right there on the coast there is a VERY strong up-draft of wind that goes from the ocean below and hits the cliffs and goes up. So we soared down the coast line on the glider. Gordon did a bunch of really cool dives and 360's while we were up there. But mostly we just soared around and floated on the breeze. We were up there for a half hour and my feet were starting to go numb from the cold. Landing was a really neat feeling too. Oh man, what an incredible surprise! Clark is the best ever! Happy birthday to me!