Before the jump
Free falling! Just jumped out of the plane with a backwards flip!
Finally the parachute!
Amazing views!
Butt shot!
Wheeee! I can fly!
Oh my freezing lips!
Fun! Can't stop smiling/laughing!
Floating thru the clouds! Actually it was on May 6th I will never forget that day! I stopped again in Taupo for the night just to do this, I've been thinking about it since I got to NZ and Kylie kept on me about how amazing it was. She said either that or bungee jumping, some how this seemed saner! (Is that a word?!)
We it was arranged to go and after several delays because of the weather they finally called and said it was a go at 3pm, I was so excited!
We it was arranged to go and after several delays because of the weather they finally called and said it was a go at 3pm, I was so excited!
Got there and all strapped up and in the plane we went. First guy and his instrutor leap out, that was a little weird watching them disappear so quickly but I was still doing okay. Then it got a little too cloudy and we had to do 3 fly bys and I was starting to think they were going to cancel it again. I was getting a little leary and very cold and ready to call it quits when the guy waved us quickly to slide to the edge of the plane and before I knew it we were doing a backwards flip out of it! Then we free fell at 200mph for over a minute, it was amazing and so fast that my lips were frozen like I was just at the dentist Xs 10! Finally he pulled the cord and we did corkscrews round and round above the lake, I asked if we were going to land there as we seemed so far away from the land! He laughed and promised me we wouldn't and we didn't! Landed closest to the button actually! What an experience! Would I do it again? Yeah! Maybe in the summer though. Back to the hostel for a hot tub, dinner and a game of New Zealand Monopoly!
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