My lil sis' b-day present...

For her birthday we thought and thought about what would be the perfect gift for her 30th birthday. I finally came up with something. A skydive. We were going to do it on her actual birthday a few weekends ago but things didn't work out schedule-wise. We finally got to do it today. I have some friends that are regular skydivers and decided the best place to take her would be somewhere I knew some folks. One of the guys I know has a helmet-cam and said he'd be happy to film her jump. We showed up around 3pm for her dive. She watched the little training film and did some practice with her tandem partner and was ready to go. As they were taking off clouds started to roll in. Gotta love Texas in summer, storms can pop-up and disappear quite quickly. By the time they got to altitude it was pouring on the drop zone. The pilot called off the jump and landed. As he was landing, the storm ended. They re-fueled and took off again. Once at altitude, about 12,000 feet, they jumped. She got a good 10-12 seconds of free-fall before they popped the chute. She got another 3-5 minutes of gliding before touch-down. It was not the most graceful landing but as they say, 'any landing you can crawl away from is a good one'. She said she had a blast and that she'd do it again.

Happy Birthday, Saucy.

For pics see the photo album. I'll also upload the video once I've got a copy.

: Semi Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind