"Adventure is out there!"

I have always been a little on the reserved side when it came to being adventurous, though I have always been pretty good at hiding it. I mean, come on, if there was a cute boy involved and he wanted to do something that required me to be an adrenaline junkie like him....I would buck up and somehow find the courage to continue. Want some examples? Good, I thought you'd never ask :)

1. I had a huge crush on a boy in high school who loved to wake-board. Like REALLY wake-board...jumps, flips, you name it. So what did I do? I learned how to wake-board. Did I do flips? Heck no. Did I do jumps? Maybe teeny tiny 2 inches off the water jumps. But did I extend myself enough to at least look cool? Heck yes I did.
2. I had a lot of friends who liked to rock climb. Did I like to rock climb? No, it scared the crap out of me....but did I go along and pretend I was having an awesome time? You better believe it.
3. On my awesome honeymoon, my hubby (who loves all this adventure stuff and has many many tales to tell himself) really wanted to go snorkeling. I've been snorkeling before, but just right off the beach in really shallow water, so I was game. When the time came to go, we hopped in a boat, yes a boat.....and motored out to the freakin' middle of the ocean (seriously, I could not even see the island that we were staying on) and the driver of the boat said "jump in" in his heavy Spanish accent. I was SO scared!!!! But everyone else was doing it and hubbyman was really stoked about this (and who was I to disappoint him on our honeymoon?) so....I jumped in. Yes it was incredibly scary (barracudas swimming around us anyone?) but to this day, I'm glad I did it.

Something I will never ever do.....I don't care, I'm not doing it.

So, why do I speak of such things? Well, I was reading a tid-bit in a magazine (yes! a magazine! can you believe it!) about faking it if you're not adventurous and I thought "yes, this was written for me." This is what was wrote (by a man who does a comedy-travel tv show who just happens to be a bit scared of some of the adventurous feats he is supposed to perform....on television)

1. Do the stunt with an even bigger coward than you (I never thought of this!)
2. Avoid caffeine
3. Express your panic to others
4. Hug people (and by that he means women he says hahahaha) often
5. Have a celebration waiting for you (good one!)
6. Remember how good it will all sound at your funeral (hilarious!)

I thought it was good and hilarious, so I had to share.

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Have a great Monday!