Zip Lining

When Randy first brought it up I thought he was crazy. "How about zip lining, in Fremont Street in your wedding dress?" My initial response was, "that's funny" and "I guess you do only wear a wedding dress one day, so I should get a lot out of it." He keep pushing the issue. The day we got married he said, "OK, now it's time to go to Fremont street". I was hesitant. First off, it was really cold in Vegas the week we got married, my second concern was the straps, and how they would go around my dress. Yes, and a distant third, was people looking up my dress, I figured I could get some cheer leading briefs and I'd feel more comfortable.

The time came and I was very nervous. I yelled at Randy and became really annoyed.  My sister Jennifer, who I believed to be scared of heights, went and her boyfriend (Ray) and Randy's brother Rob,  we were all going. My Best friend Anna, and Randy, were both going to go, but after looking at the paperwork there was a change of heart. As we stood in line filling out all the paperwork, the "I promise not to sue you if I get hurt doing this," I got more and more irritated.  Why did I have to do this in my wedding dress? My hair was going to be a mess, what if I fell? I started talking to the girl at the desk, who kept assuring me I would be fine. I asked flat out if anyone had ever fallen and did not get a response. That made me even more mad, but she was probably more than annoyed at my hesitation.  I displaced my anger on him, I felt really pressured to do this, but I had total control. I did not have to do this, I did want to, but in my dress?  I decided to keep going because it was going to be fun, scary fun.

After filling out all the paper work, taking all the loose pins out of my hair, and unloading my camera on Randy, we walked to the elevator. The paper work had said, "You must be able to physically climb the steps up to the platform" when I repeated this to Ray  (my sister's boyfriend) he said, "you actually read that?".  Apparently, Ray just signed it without reading it.

We waited in line and it was raining, Jennifer was worried about her hair, Ray was talking to the people in line, Randy's brother, Rob, was smiling. I was worried. I kept watching these people scream happily as they passed by us on the cable, watching them suit up, "just one mistake" I kept thinking. Finally, I stopped thinking because I was in line to get the harness on, which looked problematic in my dress. The person who gave me the harness, set in one the ground and said, "step in to it here, good luck" and walked off. This concerned me. I tried to step on it, pull it on, finally another attendant walked up to help me.  He told me where to hold my dress and helped me get it on, it was really funny because he seemed very young and didn't want to "touch me anywhere inappropriate". I told him to just get the harness on and don't worry about it. He got the whole thing on and said, "uh-oh". What-oh? "We have to take it off and put it back on, we missed a loop." At this point I was cursing at Randy.  As I was talking to the kid hooking me up I told him how nervous I was, he said that I should be, I would be hanging six stories up by a cable. Thanks for the reassurance.

We got the harness on and had to wait in another line and climb a very small number of steps. Ray pointed out that those must be the steps that were in the paperwork.  As we waited at the platform, we got to hang in our harnesses just above the platform. It was a really cool view to look down on Fremont street with all the lights and people. I was a lot less scared looking down and also knowing that the harness was holding me. It wasn't uncomfortable and I didn't feel exposed.  The attendant gave a little speech about what to do and not to do, no cameras, don't pull your phone out,  don't put your hand over the red strap, don't lay down or go upside-down.... stuff like that, then they let go and you fly.  It was a really unusual sensation, kind of like a roller coaster, but with more freedom.  It was a lot of fun,  I think it goes about 30 MPH  (about 18.64 KPH).  The ride took about a minute and it was a lot of fun, I wanted to go again. At the bottom of the stairs they actually show you pictures that they've taken while you were on the ride and you can buy them, which I did and included one in this blog.  Fremont Street in general was pretty cool. If I ever go back I'm going to buy an entire day pass to ride the zip line.

Where I went:

http://www.vegasexperience.com/
http://flightlinezfremont.com/
http://flightlinezfremont.com/waivers/