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| Misty's S K Y D I V E Adventure |
| This exciting adventure was a belated birthday present from Earl! He surprised me with it almost 2 months after my birthday. It was such a BLAST! The boys loved watching me, too. Timmy kept asking if he could go 'skydriving' with me... |
| I've always thought that skydiving would be cool. I also knew I'd never be able to jump out of the plane myself, that they would have to push me... Well, that's how it happened! I went Tandem, and my instructor was Steve Beebe. |
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| Getting ready to land... |
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| On my way to my first plane ride... |
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| I've taken off in an airplane, but never landed in one, and I survived!!!!! |
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| I can't hear very well... it sounds like I'm under water... |
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| Ready for take-off... |
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| hehe THAT WAS AWESOME!!! |
| Feet down... we've landed... |
| At 120 mph, your face will look like this! Normally, they fall at 180 mph, but since they were taking pics, he pulled a mini-chute (not sure of accurate name for it), to slow us down, We came out of the plane at 14,000 feet. We were free-falling for about a minute. Let me tell ya something, the air was SO strong it was taking my breath away! That was the only thing that really scared me. The initial jump just freaked me out!!! |
| You can't even tell you're falling! It's just REEEEEEEALLLLYYYY , REEEEEEEALLLLYYYY windy! |
| Like I said before, I knew I would have to be pushed out... if you watch my video, you'd see... as we waddled to the back of the plane, that's when I started to freak a little... I didn't black out, but I don't remember much because I was too worried I'd forget what to do. His body weight had to rock us out, cuz I wasn't budgin'!!! I wasn't tryin' to stay in the plane or anything, just freaking out a little is all. I was in la-la land... |
| It was pretty cool that I got to help him steer us to the landing zone. He let me do some turns before we were close enough to land, too. |
| On my way back in to share the excitement of the experience!!! |
| click on the pic... I'm on their website!!! |
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