In an attempt at full disclosure, I should tell you some of the things that I did not think all the way through until we were airborne. I actually paid an extra $10.00 to be taken up to 14,000 feet instead of "only" 10,000 feet. Well, I had no concept of height. After we were on our way up in the airplane I started to realize that 14,000 feet is very high. It is 2.6 miles straight up and during free fall I would be traveling at 120 miles per hour, straight down. Guess what...I loved it! But I do think about it more after the jump than I did before the jump.
Here are all four of us before the jump. From left to right are me, David, Jim, and Dawn.
This is Frank. Frank is my "guy" who took care of me the whole way down. He was such a nice guy and reassured me all the time. He only had one rule...DON'T GRAB HIS HANDS. Other than that, just relax and he would "fly" me home...and he did.
Frank told me he took his own mother on a skydive, which did make me relax a little.
Here is Frank and his bride-to-be, Leslie. They will be married in October. Leslie was my "videographer" and she was awesome! She actually hung onto the outside of the plane, at 14,000 feet, to get a picture of me and Frank coming out the door. She did everything we did only backwards and with a video camera. Like I said, "Awesome". I was so impressed with both of these young folks, in fact, all the guys and girls at Adventure Skydive.
2 comments:
Love it and Loved the jump!!
BTW - love the new look of the blog too!
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