Skydiving!!!

Today we went Skydiving!!!

We jumped with Sky Dive Spaceland in Houston and both our instructors were highly experienced and friendly. Mine was a day from his 10,000 jump and Jenny’s had long since passed that milestone since making his first jump in 1968! You have to sign a whole bunch of waivers, watch a 15 minute instructional video and then you are good to go. Your instructor talks you through everything before, on the flight and during the jump so it is all very easy and most importantly safe. The only hitch either of us had was that my first parachute didn’t deploy and we had to use the reserve (this is visible in the video when we both reach to the right to pull the toggle, nothing happens, and then the instructor uses his left arm to pull the reserve chute) but I didn’t know this until we watched the video back!

All I will say is it was like nothing else we have ever done in our lives and we would 100% recommend it to anyone and most definitely want to do it again. The scariest part is taking off and ascending to height in such a light aircraft, jumping out seems a blessing after 10 minutes in a plane like that!

Words cannot describe! We paid extra to get photos and a video each and I am just going to let them do the talking. Yes, they are incredibly cheesy and I will most likely hide behind a pillow every time I watch it; cringing. But that’s what you get from getting a camera shoved in your face when you’re trying to syke yourself up to jump out of a plane from 14,000ft!

Anyway; check out the videos below and the photos on the right and enjoy!..and do it yourself if you get a chance, what do you have to lose...

Jenny

Matt