Almost...

For the last 3 days I've been eagerly anticipating going against every sane thought in my head and jumping out of a plane! And now I get to continue doing so for another FULL week!

Sunday morning Dave and I were supposed to go skydiving, Dave for the 2nd time (he had gone with his roommates when he was in college) and me for the 1st time ever!! [Technically we were supposed to go on Saturday morning but because of a computer glitch the reservation I made was lost in cyber-space and by time we realized any of this the day was already booked with 43 tandem jumpers and the people at Connecticut Parachutist's could only "do their best to squeeze us in" so it was suggested we pick another day.] It was an anniversary present (from 3 years ago) re-gifted into a 30th birthday present this year. So at this point there really was no getting out of it! So I watched the video a few times to get myself pumped for what we were going to do (after of course getting through the part about death, injury, and not being able to sue the company or anyone involved).

So Sunday morning we woke up at dawn to drive an hour to Ellington, CT for our big adventure. It was still pretty gloomy at 7am so we didn't think much of it as we were driving. But once we got out of the car in Ellington it was still grey and cloudy and when we signed in the woman warned us that no one was tandem jumping yet, they were waiting the weather out and it was up to us to make the call on how long we were willing to wait. We were still pretty optimistic at this point (as much as I would have probably been fine with turning around and going home) so we hung out and met some of the others that were in line ahead of us for tandem jumping. It was comforting for me to see others that were nearly as nervous as I was if not more so!

When we arrived

While we were waiting 2 people in line ahead of us were suited up and given the 2 minute lesson on the technique for jumping out of the plane so we continued to be optimistic about getting to jump. Meanwhile a plane had gone up with a group of licensed skydivers and it turned out the cloud ceiling was only at 4200 ft. (to legally tandem jump it has to be at least 4500 ft. and one of the certified jumpers said he wasn't comfortable jumping unless the ceiling was at least 7000 ft.). The 3 hours we waited there hopeful that the ceiling would burn off 2 other planes went up with licensed skydivers and the ceiling moved a little higher to 5000 ft. (on a nice day they get to 10,500 ft.) but rain was coming in from Springfield, MA so we decided to call it and make a reservation for the next weekend rather than (1.) not get the full experience or (2.) wait around another 3 hours.

It did not look like it was going to get any better to us, so we took a rain check

So now I get to try not to think about this for another week (which is nearly impossible) and pump myself up all over again - I'll probably end up watching that video at least another 100 times! I just know I'll regret it if I don't do it though, so I have no choice but to wait!

Me excited that we get to go home, JK - When we were still hopeful that we'd get to skydive