Adrenaline Rush

So post-Heidelberg, it was decided that a little excitement was in order. Like I said, my cousin is not one to do the boring stuff.

So we headed out to a lake ...
... and suited up ...

Yea, somehow I had a giant fear of getting wet, which is ironic, considering what we were doing.

... and went water-skiing!

It took a few tries, but I finally got the hang of it by the end! Turns out - I love this whole cable-park wakeboarding/water skiing thing. I guess it helped that I used to ski competitively - alpine skiing really does translate in water skiing. Which meant that there were good moments ...

 Along with the not-so-good moments ...

About 2 seconds post face-first wipe-out ...

 I was SO pumped up after doing this (but also exhausted, because man, it is HARD  to hold on to the bar - it really takes it out of your arms and legs. And you know what's also hard? Swimming back to the station if you fall somewhere on the opposite side of the lake. I think out of our 1hr of water-skiing, I spent about half an hour just swimming. While tugging my water skis along.)

So I suggested that we go to Baden Baden to hit up their mineral water spas and relax there. (And by suggested, I mean, it was my plan all along and I had been inserting subliminal messages into our conversations all day). Unfortunately, my cousin's boyfriend really wanted to watch the Euro Cup football match, so we had to pick something a bit closer to home. Which ended up being a super fabulous swimming pool/spa thing right there in Darmstadt.

Oh and did I forget to mention that it started raining half way through our water-skiing and was really hammering down by that time? So let me tell you, those jacuzzi's couldn't have come at a better time. I would have taken photos ... but A) my camera's not waterproof (I know I know, I need to get on that) and B) there were a few couples going beyond casual PDA right there in the pool, and tired as I was, I figured I should shoot my porn movie some other time.