USA Entry #3: Sky Diving

Hello! So *dramatic pause*, last weekend I finally crossed out something from my bucket list which is sky diving!!!! (duh). It was my friend's 21st birthday and she wanted to sky dive so I was invited along! I have quite a few things on my bucket list and I always assumed that sky diving was something I would cross out last, but I guess I sky dived (dove?) before even bungee jumping for the first time, hahaha!

Okay, so here was how it went. We drove to the middle of nowhere and that was Bryon Airport; signed a waiver form saying that if you die, you cannot sue them for anything, even if it's their fault, you still can't sue, hahah. When I read that I was so hesitant to sign but I did any way if not there was no way I could bungee jump :b Paid, suit up and got some instructions from my blue-eyed Russian instructor. After that we got onto a tiny plane and we had to all squish together. Everyone in the plane were sitting super close, like, WAY TOO CLOSE but I guess that's normal in the sky diving world. The plane ride took about 10minutes to get up to 13 000 feet and guess how long we took to get back to the ground, 5-7minutes.. hahah! There were already licensed divers before me so they were all diving solo. When I watch them jump and fall off from the plane, holy shit... My heart was beating like crazy, you have no idea how fast they were falling!!! My legs were turning into jelly because I was so nervous.

When it was my turn, my instructor and I stood at the edge of the plane door way while the camera man was holding onto the ledge OUTSIDE the plane. Before I could really process what was happening, I was already falling and I screamed (in a good way la). Guess what? It felt NOTHING like roller coasters where your heart jumps out of your chest, nothing like that! You're just falling and when you reach the point where the downward & upward forces balance, you really feel like you're just floating. The scenery wasn't the best but I thought it was beautiful nevertheless and it looked so unreal! It looked like it was all green screen and I was gonna get punked or something lol. The camera man had on a wing suit and he was just flying around in circles so casually. I envied his freedom since I was basically glued to my instructor haha. Finally he pulled the parachute and we shot up while I watch my camera man continue to fall down. I really loved it when we were flying around with the parachute,  it was so fun and my instructor showed me the beautiful view! I felt like I was on top of the world at that point, I was just flying and it felt awesome.

The plane behind us! Pretty cool shot eh?

Sadly, what goes up must come down :( I looked like a totally mess when I landed hahaha but man, I was so happy I did it. It was a good high :b The birthday girl on the other hand, her eyes were bloodshot, her face was so red but she was laughing her ass off from how fun it was.

Mt. Diablo is somewhere there :b 

So to my friends who asked me how it went, there's your answer. I can't explain whatever I really felt but I tried my best. Sky diving isn't scary, maybe the first time before the fall but when you do fall, it feels incredible and it's not scary at all. Not even a bit, it was just hella fun!

Until today, I still couldn't believe I actually did it.Would I do it again? Hell yes! I was really fortunate to have the chance to go skydiving, I was really grateful for it. It's really something different and hopefully I can get my licence so I can do cool flips WITH the parachute hehe. If you have the chance, go for it so you can feel it for yourself! :D

Thanks for reading my friends!

Love Rachel*