Zorbing

About a week ago, Kiwi-boy, R, and I headed out to Tokoshima to try our luck at Zorbing...basically, you get inside a giant inflated ball and roll down the hill. Its the same concept as a hamster running around in a ball, but cruising at an uncontrolled speed down a verticle incline. Okay, so there are 2 options, wet or dry...dry means you get strapped into a harness within the ball (it also means the ride is a bit more rough, since the ball tends to bounce its way down the hill.) Wet, means that there is no harness, but you sit inside the ball with a few buckets of warm water, so as the ball rolls down the hill you get sloshed around with it.

We all opted for wet...and it turns out, that the whole zorbing experience is actually what I would imagine hanging out in a womb to be like. Its wet, slippery, warm, kind of comfy, definatly soft. And as I rolled down the hill at a completely uncontrolled speed, splishing and splashing, basically water sliding within an enclosed, spherical surface...I started to wonder if this is what it felt like to be born. And if this is what birth is like...well hey, that's pretty awesome...well, except for the whole, emerging into the air and freezing your buns off...I totally get why baby's cry when they are born....its really cold outside the womb.

Alright enough of this nonsense....I highly suggest you go out and experience it for yourselves..