Thursday, October 15, 2009

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, Take III (Sky Diving)

Alright, so I've been skydiving before but wow! Jumping over Las Vegas was so cool though! Got to see Lake Mead, the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon and the Vegas strip. WOW!

So we get there and of course you have all the paperwork to fill out and I just LOVED their paperwork. Imprinted on each paper was the word DANGER just in case you thought jumping out of a perfectly good airplane for fun and PAYING for it was SAFE.
They even have you copy down an entire sentence saying that you know what you are doing and you pretty much give up all rights to sue.
They sell pictures and raw video; I didn't think I'd buy them, but I caved and bought the pictures but you know what I'm ok with that. They turned out good!

That's Lake Mead to my rightThe Colorado is behind me just to my right, you couldn't see the Canyon in any of the pictures, but it was cool to see from up there!

And then safely back on the ground:

I had to get a semi-picture of my diver because man, he was the biggest surfer dude stuck in a land lock state EVER! But still cool and made me comfortable doing this again.

I wanted to show you a picture of people with chutes open in the sky. Seriously, we were up there, it was a mile up when we jumped. Good free fall followed by nice long coast to the ground.

It really was a LOT of fun, I recommend it to anyone who has the nerve to do it. There was a girl on the plane with us though who I thought wouldn't do it, but she did. The hardest part is just scooting out to the edge because you don't want to pull your diver out before he's ready, but it's a good time!

I live on the edge sometimes, but I still am looking to do bungee jumping and hangliding. Maybe after that I can go parasailing! :)

Where in the World is Sara D. Ray? Well now you know, she's missing this summer!

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