" To Infinity and Beyond" - Buzz Lightyears

Saturday February 21 was suppose to be our shark cage adventure with the man eaters. the owner called up and said that due to bad weather the trip today would be canceled. all the girls that were suppose to go were ticked, we were expecting something thrilling this weekend and were disappointed. our friend Marisha ,one of the shark members, told us about some byuh students that were going skydiving today "maybe we can just add onto their group". for about an hour we were trying to figure out 1) what to do 2) how many slots were open for skydiving and 3) transportation. some gave up hope but others persevered. we called Skydive Hawaii and asked if we could go today and she said they were booked until tomorrow, we mentioned the byuh group and asked if we could add to that and the lady was like, "oh yes" ha we were in. now we need a ride or we cant go. when we had decided to take the bus a friend called and said he would go and he could drive us. 

before we knew it we were on the road. me, Britnee, Christina, Alicia, Lizzy,and Kyle, the driver, were headed to Haleiwa to go jump out of a plane. when i skydived in utah we had to reserve our spot a week in advanced and had to wait at the place for about 2 hours before we were able to go in the plane, hawaii was a little different.

we arrived at the location and the Chinese lady came out and said "you here to skydive at 2:00?" we acted like we knew what was going on and that we knew the other member of the byuh group haha. i like to say that we pretty much worked the system and rode in on the other groups back with out them even knowing we just used them for their spot. she asked us some questions about the other group like when are they coming... we just made up answers. we were signing away our lives on paper while a safety movie was playing- that no one was watching. we didn't have time to pay because our plane was leaving in 15 minuets. keep in mind this whole operation happened in less then 3 hours. we were starting to get nervous now that the awesome fact of jumping out of a plane was staring us in the face. we were all rushed to the plane being told instructions on the way. i wasn't even fully harnessed up my guy , Peter from germany, was cinching my straps as we hurried to the plane.

we had to squish 14 people into the plane, christina and i were pretty much hanging out the open door. the photographer, Sasha also from germany, kept opening the plexiglass door just to make us scream. a couple of us were freaking out in the plane while our instructors were strapping and cinching our harnesses.it was beautiful to see hawaii from 13,500 feet which was the altitude when they opened the door and christina and her tandem jumped at. i was next, head back, arms crossed,ready to scream, and adrenaline pumping we jumped out of the plane and were falling at 120 mph! it was so AWESOME we did 2 backflips out of the plane and were falling through clouds, which were cold and moist. Peter pulled the chute and we glided back down to earth. this was the most beautiful view of hawaii!!! you could see the reef, waves, secluded beached, gorgeous mountains, and crops below. we spun around in our parachute and had a very soft landing. all the girls were laughing with excitement for our spontaneous achievement, and the fact that we were still breathing!

we payed and watched the video Sasha made of Christina falling out of the plane. we were on our way out when we saw our group arriving haha they had no idea. i still cant believe we pulled this off. everyone was exhausted on the drive home, job well done.