Nov 21 - Sabado

PARAPENTE.... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (tandem parachuting).  For 300p (100bucks) i did that!!! Alejandro finally let us borrow his bike and we rode into the town of La Cumbre...the bike was great...gotta love holding on to a hot guy on a bike...and we realized we had to go early before everything closed for the siesta.  Riding ona  moto is so much more fun an exhilarating.  I even took a couple of videos of the bike ride and pictures of course.  it as a little precarious trying to hold a camera and not fall off the bike at the same time - actuall yi almost fell off when he decided to speed ovr a bump and one of my legs slipped down.  anyway, we went to the tourist office and asked where we go for the parapente.  she told us to call some guy and then drive on the other side of the highway to Cuchi Corral - a windy, bumpy, dirt road up through some hills.  as we were driving, it was't very high up; so we couldn't really see how we were going to parapente around here.  the road was super bumpy, but finally we arrived at this clearing where the ground dropped away to one of the most amazing views.  like being on the mountain.  we waited a couple of hours out in the hot son, for an instructor to take us out.  people kept showing up and we regretted not calling an instructor like the girl told us - we figured there were a shit ton of people in front of us...andthere were a bunch of guys that only flew solo - and tey jumped off and away they went.  we were watching 3 solos and one tandem.  i took some pretty amazing photos.  finally an instructor said he would take us.  uli had to take my backpack beccause all our valuables were in it so i went first.  they strapped me in and when they first got the parahute up, you can feel the wind catch it, so you have to start running against the wind quickly - one minute your feet are on he ground, the next, the ground drops away...and you're flying with nothing but the guy behind you and a parachute above you.  i actually took pictures too..rigt up unil we came down - in a cow/horse field.  it was great.  at times we'd catch a thermal and the g-force would pull you as you went around and aroun - like a rollercoaster- and i laughed and shrieked and felt great.  when we landed in the cow field, we had to pick up the equipment and got in a pickup truck heading back to the take-off point.  The instructors were  a bit nuts and i got them to take a picture of two.  then the truck had a flat tire- and we watched (myself and this couple from France) as it took 4 of them to change the tire really quickly.  the instructors threw all the parachutes and equipment in the back, and then they all hung on, as we drove back to the take off point.  unfortunately for Uli, by the time i got back, the wind had changed and it was no longer suitable for jumping.  we had been out in the sun for far too long without water.  we opped on the bike and went back into La Cumbre and had lunch at a place (salads, of course) wie we looked at the Cordoba map to figure out where we could go on the bike.  we rode around and found an almost empty street where Uli taught me how to drive the motorcycle.  i did fine and it got easier untili turned the bike around and it fell on me.  the bike and i were fine...and i rode it back up the street- he made a couple of videos of me driving it - so there's proof!  we got back to the Villa and were waiting around to hear about the asado we were supposed to be a part of later.  but we were confused as Roxanna was telling us to buy all the meat when we didn't know for how many people.  good thing Ale came by and went and bought the meat for us.  we went over to Roxanna's house and had an asado with her boyfriend Pablo,his daughter, Roxanna's daughter and Ale.  it was great but by about 1am-2am, i couldnt' understand Pablo's stories anymore and was getting really tired.  so, i said my goodnights and left.