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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Skydiving in February?

Yep you read it right. Yesterday was such a beautiful day and amazingly the drop zone was open because some crazy people wanted to make tandem skydives. I was sitting at H&R Block at 3:00 and looking outside seeing how gorgeous it was and I just couldn't sit there and do nothing. (We weren't very busy) So I asked my office leader if I could leave early (2 hours early) so I could go jump on this beautiful day and thankfully she said yes.
I got geared up, in I don't even know how many layers, then topped it with my ski pants and a wind proof jacket and put my rig on top of all of that and headed to the plane. Did I mention how gorgeous of a day it was yet? Right, so on the plane ride I didn't even get cold, the jump itself wasn't even that bad and usually on the canopy ride down I freeze, but not this time. All the layers worked great. The only bad thing about the jump was that I still have some congestion from a cold and I thought my head was going to explode from the pressure, but it didn't. I did however get a nasty headache from the whole thing so I didn't feel up to going to Hula.
Landing in the snow is quite funny. Most people braved trying to land on the feet and run it out. Some were successful, but most would end up belly/face flopping from the snow being too deep. My plan was to just come in sliding on my but, I thought that would be a lot of fun, but then at the last minute I was like, "I can stand this up." Well guess what happened? I took about two steps and then sliding on my belly I went. It made me laugh and I wish I had pictures, they would have been great. It was nice to have such a blue sky day that included skydiving. It was definatley a mood booster.

2 comments:

Kristin said...

That is so cool that you were able to go. I love that you slid on your belly. How funny.

Holly said...

BBBBRRRRRR!!!!!!