Skydiving Video

But it was a perfectly good airplane

This year, I turned a strange age in which the first digit is exactly double the second.  This age is a milestone to many, as 21 is the legal age for everything else 18 is too young for.  However, this year I am also on contract with Hume Lake Christian Camps, and agreed not to drink, smoke, or get any piercings or tattoos while on staff.  Not like that would have been an issue anyways, but instead of simply letting my birthday pass me by I decided to do something I would ordinarily never do... like jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

Oh yeah, for my 21st birthday I went skydiving!

The guys over at Skydive Sacramento gave me an awesome first jump and come highly recommended for all your skydiving needs.  Check them out of you're in town!

There I am in the back, trying to get my monster feet through the jumpsuit without having to take my shoes off.  In the end, it would have been faster to just take my tennies off...

Before.  Don't I look excited?

All suited up and getting the harness squared away.

There's the plane!  I would like to point out, though you can't see inside, there is only one chair, but four seat belts.  I guess they don't want you to fall out of the plane... oh, wait...

The exit!  I've successfully taken off in an airplane more times than I have landed in one.

Oh yeah, that's the face I'm looking for!  And the hair too..it's reminiscent of Syndrome from "The Incredibles"

It was a great day to jump!  Slightly overcast, not too cold, and the haze was left behind at about 9,000 feet up.

It's that pretty!  An open parachute!

And finishing off an awesome first skydive with a perfect 3-point landing: foot-foot-behind!

After.  He looks much happier!

Hume Lake Filling, 2010!