Adam helped me out of the tub, and brought me a robe. I walked out of the bathroom and sat on the bed. I grabbed the luggage bags and started going through them. I sure hope my brother didn't pick out my clothes. But he did. He didn't do too bad. I mean, it was wearable... Each item of clothing had a number on it.. I asked Adam what the numbers meant and he told me that if it says number one, I have to wear that in the first day of Fiji, number two is for the second day, and so on and so forth. I put on the first outfit. It was simple, just a pair of bright colored high waisted shorts, and a white tank top.
"So whatever outfits Justin picked for you, they correspond with whatever we are going to be doing that day. Now, I have a lot planned these following two weeks, and we don't have much time to do them... So let's get going." Adam said with a huge smile spread across his face. "So today," He continued, "We are going hang gliding over the ocean, you down?"
"Are you serious?" I asked, "Of course! When are we going?"
"Now." He said as he grabbed my hand, ran up the stairs, and out the door. Another cab was already outside waiting for us. We hopped in the cab and the driver took us to our next destination. Hang gliding.
The cab driver finally stopped at... A boarding dock? At this point I was really confused... Adam just looked at me and said:
"We are going to New Zealand for hang gliding. So we have exactly 1613.11 miles to go, on a boat..." I looked at him for a minute. Wow. He really is something special.
"When did you plan all this?" I asked curiously.
"I... Had some free time..." He replied. I was about to walk onto the little speed boat when Adam stopped me.
"Nope" He said, "that's not our boat." He paused. "Thats our boat." He said looking up at the massive yacht. "That's what's taking us to New Zealand."
"No way!" I squealed. "I've always wanted to ride on a yacht!" Adam just kept smiling at me.
"Now boarding for New Zealand!" The captain yelled. But, no one was boarding the boat except for us...
"Are we the only ones?" I whispered.
"Yes." He whispered back. I gave him a blank expression. "I know a guy." Adam led me to the uppermost deck as the boat starting moving to New Zealand. I stood at the very edge of the railing on the boat and leaned forward, spreading my arms wide, and looking into the beautiful Pacific Ocean. Adam came up behind me, and hugged me around my waist. Adam whispered in my ear:
"We are doing that one Titanic move." I laughed and put my arms down, his arms still around me. He gently placed a single kiss on my neck.
"I'm glad I finally got to marry you."
"I'm glad you finally asked me." We smiled at each other. We had our little moment and then walked downstairs to the captain's control room.
"About five minutes, you see that little island right there?"
"Yes." We both said simultaneously.
"That's it! That is where we are going, we should be there in about four minutes
now."
"OK, thanks Brian." Adam said, "I owe you one."
"No problem, kid." The captain said to Adam. "Alright, here we are... New Zealand. Now I took you two as close as I could to Coronet Peak, but you two still have a way to go before you get there... See you guys on the way home?"
"Yep, thanks Brian."
"Hey, you guys might want to bundle up... it's kind of cold up there..."
"I have come prepared." Adam stated boldly as we walked off of the yacht. We neared the base of the mountain and looked up. Adam then looked at me and said
"5,449 miles up, you ready to jump off of it?" He laughed as he said that.
"Yes..." I replied nervously.
We hopped onto the ski lift when it neared us, and we sat tight until we reached the peak of the mountain. Adam reached out of nowhere and put a coat on me. It's amazing, the difference between the base of the mountain and the peak. The ground was warm enough to go without a coat, and 5,000 miles up, it was snowing. A man greeted us.
"Hello, are you the Armstrong Family?"
"Yes." Adam replied, pulling out two tickets from his coat pocket, and handing them to the man.
"Congratulations." He said as he grabbed some hang gliding gear and started to equip me with them.
"Thanks..." I said as I stepped into the harness. Next was Adam's turn to get the harness on. We were then strapped together, and laid down on this sort of tarp like thing that was attached to the kite. There was this metal bar that extended down from the kite into this triangle like- pattern, we were instructed to hang onto the bar going across the bottom. As we grabbed the bar, the man pushed us off the mountain.
"AHHHHHHH!" I screamed, my throat going horse.
"I wasn't ready!!" Adam yelled.
"Me either!" The wind was so loud it was nearly impossible to hear one another, we had to shout in order for the other person to get even the faintest of whisper. But it was amazing! I could see everything from up here! New Zealand was beautiful! Adam was pulling two small ropes located on the left and right wings of the kite to steer us in the direction that we wanted to go. He suddenly changed direction and started heading toward the ocean! The way to Fiji.
"Where are we going?" I shouted. He smiled and looked at me.
"Over the ocean..." He yelled back. The hang glider started getting closer and closer to the ocean... I noticed a tiny dot in the middle of it, as we got nearer it got bigger, and bigger, and bigger, until I could make out what it was, a boat... A very big boat at that... Was that... Our yacht?
"Please tell me you aren't trying to land on that!" I yelled over the winds howls.
"Oh yes I am!" he screamed back. All of the sudden he let go of the ropes, making the glider shoot toward the boat at high speed! When we got a little too close for comfort Adam pulled the ropes tight again and safely, and gently landed us.
"Awesome." I said, able to once again use my normal voice. "For a second there I thought you weren't going to make it.
"Nah..." He said. We unhooked ourselves and headed back down down to the captain's control room.
"Brian, we are back."
"Yeah I know, don't you think I heard the loud thud? Since you made it halfway to our destination the cost will be a little bit cheaper for you, my friend." Brian said smiling.
"Yes!" Adam said, laughing a bit. "Thank you so much for this Brian."
"No problem, kid. We are almost there. You two hang tight OK?"
"OK, later."
Adam walked me back up to the top of the yacht and we finished the night off by looking out at the beautiful ocean below.
