For my birthday, Brittany got Jesse and myself a helicopter tour over Royal Gorge, Colorado. What a pleasant surprise, I would never even thought about asking for something like that. To be honest, I may have also been scared to do something like this. 

Jesse came over bright and early as we need to get down south in time for our excursion. Neither of us had done anything remotely close to this, so we were excited to say the lease. We ended up getting there early and had to wait for our tour, so we putzed around taking pictures of neat things around the hanger. When it was finally our turn, we were shocked that we had to wear safety inflatable life jackets (in case we had to emergency land in a lake).

The tour was for an hour, and it felt like it took 6 1/2 minutes, the time went by so fast. We toured over all the nearby foothills, say into a giant open gold mine, saw a long-abandoned brothel, and flew over the gorge to name a few things. It's quite a hard experience to convey. All I know is that I would like to have more skills like that. 

After the excursion was through, we made our way to the gorge to peer down inside for ourselves. Just up the road boasted one of the tallest suspension bridges in the world, but it was now a tourist trap, and we didn't feel like paying. To get a sense of depth, the photo taken from the ground of the bridge shows a blue eight-man rubber raft in the water below. This was one of my best birthdays.

Photography Date: 9-3-16
Writing Date: 2-26-18