We woke at 6am to go skydiving today! I started feeling a little nervous but that got over taken by excitement. We crossed the road to the Skydive Cairns office and it was scary how much we had to sign our lives away.......'the company takes no responsibility for death or serious injury'etc etc.
No one back home expected me to jump out of a plane as im a nervous flyer and i've always been a chicken and wont even go on rollercoasters...but i feel like once i do this i'll be invincible and able to conquer anything :D
It was sooo fast how everything happened...i paid my $480 for the jump photos and dvd and was assigned my jumping partner Coops. Another typical hot aussie so that calmed any nerves i may have had. If i die jumping out of a plane at least my last dying moments i will be attached to a hot man hahhaaa! We got on the little rickety plane and started rising pretty quickly. Coops was interviewing me for the dvd and taking photos while on the plane and showing me on his wrist watch thing how far up we were.....1000 ft looked really high then he told me we were going another 13,000 higher! 14,000ft is legally the highest you can jump before the lack of oxygen becomes an issue. Next thing i knew the plane door was open and the first girl was dangling her legs over the side! We jumped really quickly go, go, go, go, go then it was me! As i dangled my legs out the plane i didnt really have time to think then i jumped! For some reason i though fallnig would be really serene and calm. However you fall faster than anythnig you can imagine! The first 20 seconds i could not get my breath at all and puffed away as hard as i could then eventually i caught it and was fine! We were still free falling at this point and it was amazing.......i kept smilnig for the camera and admiring the clouds getting closer and closer to me! It literally felt like we were flying especially once you open you arms out after the jump out the plane. I dont remember doing thsi but apparently i dug my nails into coops really hard when he started flippnig and spinning me right as i jumped out the plane.....i think it was too much too soon but once i got into the swing of it i got him to spin me again it was awesome! 60seconds went by pretty fast and next thing i know the parachute opens. It was amazing because i could fully appreciate the views from up there of cairns.....it was a lush sunny day aswell so it was perfect! Coops handed me the parachute ropes and i was in the driving seat....he told me to pull down on my right one really hard and we started circling over cairns. It was actually one of the best experiences of my life. It took about 5/10 minutes alltogether but was the best $500 i've spent ever! We came into land and everyone was sooo chuffed! Coops finished interviewing me for the dvd and i was soooo chuffed about what i'd just done!
One girl Ashley felt abit nauseous after the jump but everyone else was fine! We got back on the bus and back to the skydive place in cairns...the group of ISV after us were at the point of signing their lives away so we were just reassuring them that they'd be fine and how amazing it was!
We went for a celebratory breakfast in cairns city centre and i had my usual raisen toast mmmmmm :) then we went to the nearby mall and me and lou got manicures and pedicures! It was sooo relaxing, especially after what we'd just done :) We went back to the hostel and sunbathed by the pool and had a few sneaky 1pm vodkas to congratulate ourselves on our achievements of not dying hahaaa!Then me, Briana, Bridget and Lou went for a meal in P.J O'briens bar for lunch thne went back to the hostel to prepare for our night out woohoooo! We had a load of free drinks vouchers and free entrance vouchers from the party bus night so i litereally didnt buy a drink all night :) I had quite a bit to drink and was suffering the next day before we went white water rafting uh ohhh......
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