Scorpions,Bugs, and Brains....OH MY!

If your a night snacker, this place is for you! The Donghua Men Night Market is located downtown area of Beijing,China. They pretty much skewer everything that moves and serves them on a stick. Sea Urchin,Sheep and Bull nuts,snakes,silk worms, and goat brains....yummy! Gotta say however, it's pretty creative! The funny thing though, is they also have fruit on a stick for dessert...ha!

Extremely Extreme Sport!

Is it hockey? Is it speedskating? Is it skiing? It's Ice Cross Downhill!

This is something a little crazy I came across. This is an extreme sport, and it's main event is called The RedBull Crushed Ice, which is held every year. This year it was held Quebec City.

The first race was held in Stockholm in 2000.Since then, there has been 14 races in eight countries. The terrain has varied from ski slopes in the mountains, or through urban cities and villages.

The race is a man vs. man battle down a 300 metre long ice track filled with gap jumps,ice steps, and razor sharp hairpin turns.

Check out this video below:
http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Video/Best-of-Crashed-Ice-021242828797709

Cabbages and Condoms

Cabbages and Condoms is a restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand. They are also a bar,internet cafe, and massage parlor. So basically, you can have a drink to work up your courage, get it on at the massage parlor, go online and tell everyone about it, then eat some cabbage. This is they sequence I would suggest because eating the cabbage first can lead to some pretty embarrassing situations. A portion of the restaurant's proceeds go to local family planning programs. My favorite thing about this place....it's motto: Our food is guarenteed not to cause pregnancy.

Tennis Anyone?

I don't know how anyone would be able to focus on actually playing tennis up there, but I guess it's still interesting that someone with a great imagination was able to get the support to build it.

This is the world's highest tennis court, located on Burj Al Arab building in Dubai(Arab Sail). The building itself is the second largest hotel at 690 feet high. They use the tennis court as a helicopter landing when not in use, I would recommend wearing orange just in case!

Don't Look Before You Leap!

This is the Stratosphere's newest thing....SKYJUMP!!!

Skyjump is the highest controlled free fall in the world. Before the jump riders are prepped and suited up in jumpsuits, and are also given a safety lesson (hard to remember a word of the safety lesson when your nervous, as Mike and I found out when skydiving for the first time!).

The Rider is connected to a high speed 'decender' (whatever that is) and led to the edge of the platform. Proceed to take a step and plummet through the sky 855 feet, the equivalent of 108 floors....sounds easy enough eh?!

Insane in the Membrane!!

Insanity the Ride....the craziest thing I have ever done. Thankfully there are no pictures (I hope) that captures truely one of the most scariest things I have ever done.

Picture it, your on top of the Stratosphere, the tallest building in Las Vegas! You step out from the Observation Room and viola
you find yourself 900 feet high over the lights and sounds of Las Vegas. You wait in line nervously, as you watch a mechanical arm extend 64 feet away from the building, as it opens up it tilts the seven bodies, so the people are facing strait down. Slowly it's getting faster, faster, eventually getting to speeds up to 3 'G's....people screaming, drunk people looking ill, and planes going over your head. Ride stops and.........your next!!

Twas crazy but fun!