SYbil

Good evening friends,

I do hope that you have all had ..or are having..a great July 4th.  wonder what you have all be up to. I will wait and see with anticipation !

I was thinking what I could write about, and Mary and I were sitting reminising about our holidays as we were going through some photographs, and as I thought you might enjoy a funny story I've decided to tell it as it happend..

 I have a story that is all to true...Mary and I on one of our visits to New Zealand took a helicopter ride over the Frans Joseph Glacier We flew over and around the highest mountain in NZ. Mount Cook it was a truly awesome sight. On our way back over tha Glacier  the pilot asked if we would like to land...(there were two other people in the helicopter with us) we all said yes..when it landed they jumped out first..then me....WELL I had somehow or other thought that as a helicopter could land it must be hard ice...it wasn't...I sunk up to my knees...no bother ? I tried to lift leg out of the snow...leg got stuck...so there I was hanging on to the 'copter door calling HELP can someone please come and get my leg back on !!! this was momentarily met by blank looks, then gales of laughter as I explained that it was my artificail leg that was stuck like suction !! They had to come back hang on to me, and grab the leg out the hole...the shoe remained there...it had to be recovered the snow emptied out of it and then shoved back on !!!! LOL Thankfully all this happened before Mary had had time to even move from her seat, and so she was just a witness to it all and indeed could not have helped much anyway as she was helpless with laughter !!  I can assure you I was the talk of the coach once we got back...it went round like wildfire....don't think anyone had realised I was a bit legless at times !!!!! So there is my funny tale to bring a smile for you to enjoy at the end of what I hope will have been a memorable July 4th.

Love one Another...

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• #11 Comment from lurkynat 
  11/08/08 19:19 | Permalink

  dear Sybil,
  woah! what an adventure!:) I get it now!:)
  you are so courageous as is Mary! wow!
  please visit my journal soon and leave a comment!
  love,natalie
• #10 Comment from winivere2002 
  31/07/08 15:17 | Permalink

  X-cuse me for LAUGHING!!!!!!! Can't help it! ROFL........
  XX
• #9 Comment from wwfbison 
  07/07/08 16:49 | Permalink

  Oh Sybil this is a funny story, I bet everyone will remember that trip!  I do feel bad laughing at your expense though.
  xx
  Lisa
• #8 Comment from labdancer51 
  06/07/08 20:48 | Permalink

  Oh Sybil, it does sound funny and I would think the helicopter pilot will remember it always...lol! :o)
  
  Love Sandra xxxx
  
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• #7 Comment from bgilmore725 
  06/07/08 18:14 | Permalink

  Too funny! I loved the mountain pictures... much of the scenery in Prince Caspian was filled in the New Zealand... probably the mountain shots as they look very much like the snow covered mountains you show here. That's one helicopter tour those folks will never forget! LOL! bea
  
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