It's not flying... It's falling with style!

Hey everyone... I only have a few minutes in the Internet cafe here, it's quite expensive here in lake Taupo. Anyways, today we went sky diving and it was amazing! The adrenaline rush is like nothing I've ever experienced. Russell got a video of his jump but I just couldn't justify the extra dough for the video. But I did get some great before and after pics, including some of me coming in for a landing. The ride up only took about 15 minutes and everyone is crammed into a tiny little plane. You are all lied up inside, and as you scoot forward, people start dropping out of the door. They line up, hang legs out, and look up, then wooop... it's out the door. I wasn't nearly as nervous as I thought I would be. As soon as you drop out of the plane you flop face first down toward the ground. Only at first do you feel like you are falling. After the first 15 seconds or so you feel like you are just hanging in mid air. The free fall lasts about 45 seconds and then BOOM, the shoot opens and you are dangling a few thousand feet in the air. (BTW, the jump was from 12,000 feet)It was a tandom jump which means you have an expert strapped to your back. Once the shoot opens, he asked me, you ok? I said, "Hell Yeah! That was amazing!" Then he went on to spin us around and show me some sites of the area while floating down. Before I knew it we were on the ground again.

The rush was amazing... nothing like I've ever felt before!
Here are a few pics of me and my partner Olli. He was difficult to understand, but knew exactly what he was doing... Thank god. :-P