SKYDIVE!!!!!!!

We got up in the morning, not talking much as we were all very very nervous about the prospect of doing our skydive later in the morning. It was such a strange feeling.The trepidation along with the determination to do it!
When the bus came to collect us we boarded it without saying much, the chap driving it was really hyper!!Telling us that we would have the time of our lives and we would love the Sky dive..I was not listening to him. I was actually thinking about not doing it on the journey to the airport!!
When you get there they do not hang around.We did not get much of a chance to back out. They have you togged up in the jumpsuite and staps!!

Carolyn went up with the first batch and we saw her come down..she was thrilled and loved it so It made me feel a bit better!
But walking to the plane with my Tandem skydiver I began to feel blind terror and my legs went weak.They literally had to shove me into the plane alongside Rachel. There were also two guys who were to be our personal camera crews. And another french guy and his instructor, who was doing a tandem jump, but he did not want filming. The plane was tiny and there was literally no room to move.
I was so scared..I sat on my instructors knee and he strapped me onto him. All the time I kept saying how sorry I was because I was so scared. But he was fantastic, he just kept talking to me to calm me. Pointing out the mountains in the National park below and reassuring me that the dive will be an amazing experience.
We got to 13,000ft and Rachel went first..All I kept saying was "Oh my god Rachel has gone..she has gone...oh my God"
But then I do not know what came over me,I felt calm and just thought " you are going to do it!" When I sat hanging on the edge of the plane by the door I was actually smiling at the camera!!!
and the next minute I am flying through the air at two hundred miles an hour!!! hee hee!



and loving everyminute of it,

the views over the national park were mind blowing


and I still cannot believe that I did it , But I am also very proud of myself for doing it.

After we had all done it we could not wipe the grins off our faces!

I did say that this trip was all about pushing myself outside my comfort zone. I did that and I survived!!!!

There is life in the old dog yet!!!