Skydiving was so surreal! Here's a picture - although I'm not looking my greatest, it is still a fun shot. There should be several more coming, plus a dvd which I may put on YouTube for my family (my sisters are dying to see what it's like). First, I'd like to thank the random Australian dude in Florence for putting the idea of skydiving in my head, and secondly, Cassandra for taking the first step and finding the trip and then making me follow through by both purchasing the dive (for herself, not me) and offering to drive us there. We went through a group called the Outdoor Adventure Club and only one other member joined us, whose name was also Melinda and she was also a redhead - weird! That NEVER happens!Anyway, my tandem instructor was named Neal and was super cool and very experienced (which made me feel a lot better) although Cass got the much cuter Alex. I was actually surprised at how rational I felt UNTIL I got to the edge of the plane's open door and looked down (although I did giggle a lot on the way up in the plane). Then all of a sudden my body was like, "THIS IS WRONG!!!!" even though my mind was really looking forward to jumping. It's a crazy experience - hard to describe. But anyhow I had a BLAST and would HIGHLY recommend it to anyone - I'm actually looking forward to going again in the near future. The other great part was talking with all of the skydiving junkies hanging around the "airport" - they all seemed really cool and were very into it.
Other fun parts of the day - waking up early in the morning with about 3 hours to think... "holy crap, I'm actually going to jump out of a plane today", writing my will on a post-it note (always classy), and the GREAT legal video they showed us where the guy had the most mesmirizing 80's ZZ-Top style beard I have ever seen. Here's the sight for the company who organizes the skydive: SkyDance - they may take some of me and Cassie's footage and put it up, but who knows?
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