Flying with Teenagers

3. Take a ride in a beach helicopter. Or perhaps go parasailing over the ocean.

So, I'll admit, parasailing may have been ultimately more exciting, but after my up close and personal experience with the ocean on the casino boat- and due to some financial restraints- a quick ride in a helicopter seemed to fit. I don't know if lots of people have been in helicopters. I never have. I was curious about what it'd feel like to ride over the ocean in one of the 'choppers. So I did. Today.

Since I was going alone, I had to wait to until some other folks came in- as each helicopter requires 3 folks. Finally, my turn had arrived. I was to ride the helicopter with two young men from West Virginia. Then the receptionist said we need to figure out our seating arrangement as based on our weights. The heaviest would be sitting in the back, opposite the pilot to balance the helicopter. Now, I know that most women would feel slightly nervous about blurting out their weight in front of a waiting room of people. Not me. And surprisingly I wasn't the heaviest.

I finally won over the two young men, when I joked about them being scared. We had bonded.

Here is the ol' helicopter now...














Here is the view from the 'chopper of North Myrtle Beach and Atlantic Beach.





























And all you could hear throughout the journey on the headphones was "AWESOME!" It really was. It was beautiful. It was also a little scary. It definately was too short. I could have spent half a day up there.