Taupo Skydiving!!!

SKYDIVING! WOOOOHOOO!
Alana’s perspective:

Um, wow! That was the most amazing rush ever! 15,000 feet up with a free fall for :60 seconds. So much fun! There were four of us on the plane ride up and I was the last to go. The scariest part was watching the other three people fall out of the plane and just disappear from sight. One second they were on the edge of the plane and the next… you couldn't even see them below and the next person was on the edge.

Suzy went second. All of a sudden she was just gone. And then I was at the edge of the plane, legs tucked underneath and head back waiting to fall. You really have no choice at that point. You are just pushed to the edge and then, gone… falling and falling and falling. It goes so fast. The :60 couldn't have been more than :15. It was so amazing. I was spinning all around just watching the entire northern country of New Zealand. You really could see the whole coast to coast north country. Not that I was looking too much… most of my fall was me screaming and giggling and trying to focus on everything that was happening. Sensory overload for sure! But then, Peter (my instructor) pulled the shoot and we stopped. Not really stopped but all of a sudden you are no longer falling, just floating instead. Everything kinda goes into slow motion and you just float your way to the ground. Of course we were still spinning and gliding fast, but nothing compared to the free fall.

I watched Suzy’s blue parachute land a few miles below mine and then I was landing too. It really all happens too fast and then we were back inside watching ourselves on video falling again. Haha. I am not sure which was my favorite part. I loved the fall… so exhilarating, but the floating after was awesome as well. I want to go again!! Here is a bootleg version of my video. I didn’t think of taping the movie until we had already watched suzy’s… but she will have the dvd for anyone that wants to see it. And it is a good one! Her instructor was really funny.

I will let her tell about it… if she ever jumps on to blog about it. hahaha...