It's fun how my wife and I are going on adventures together now They tend to be more thrill -seeking than some Recently we went ziplining in Tennessee and that was a blast she ziplined upside down part of the time because she started out scared and they convinced her that it was perfectly safe and that she could even zip line upside down. So she did. I did not.
I went skydiving with my two youngest sons. That was a blast and it felt like my whole body was infused with adrenaline afterwards.
Before that we went parasailing at the beach on the Carolina coast. That was a lot of fun too and it was something that I had always wanted to do but it so cost prohibitive to it.
I finally realized why we're doing more of those things that are more expensive and it's because we are older but it is also because our kids are grown.
My wife and I have four children and whenever we would go on trips it was expensive. It cost a lot to move six people around the country to fun sites and do fun things. So when we would go somewhere and one of the adventure/thrill seeking things cost a hundred bucks each we wouldn't do it because of the cost. We drove and we took peanut butter and bread and had picnic lunches and enjoyed the scenery and sometimes just sat and watched people. It was a blast!
But now that it's just my wife and I more often than not we're tending to want to go and do things that you pay for and we budget accordingly. It's a lot of fun and it's funny listening to our adult children wonder why we're so adventurous. Part of the reason is because we can afford it now.
That sense of adventure was always there. In fact, they were our big adventure while they were growing up. And I'm so proud of how well they're all doing. What a blast!
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