QUEENSTOWN, NEW ZEALAND
January 15, 2002
Good morning.
Let me tell you about our day.
8:00 a.m. head over to NZONE to check in for our morning adventure.
8:30 - watch the promo video
9:00 - get in a van to drive out to the open fields.
9:30 - put jumpsuits on.
10:00 - get on a small airplane with 8 others - 2 crazy people like me (one of them is Kim), 3 cameramen, 3 instructors - and climb 12,000 feet.
10:30 - jump out of airplane.

What? Did I say that?
repeat.
10:30 jump out of airplane.
10:30:00 - 10:30:50 Free fall at 200kph (124 miles per hour)
10:30:51 - chute opens
10:31 - enjoy beautiful view of New Zealand, Lake Wakapitu, Queenstown, and the Remarkables Mountain Range while steering my chute. Kim a few thousand feet above me.
About 10:35 - Mac (my instructor) lands us.
About 10:37 - Luis (Kim's instructor) lands them.

It fucking rocked. Oh, did I say that?
Let me say it again. It fucking ROCKED.

Kim and I were left with PERMA-Grins on our faces throughout the whole dive and for hours afterwards. Wow.
Okay, so after skydiving today, Kim and I went jet boating which is this crazy New Zealand invention of going in a turbo powered 400 horsepower jet boat at 70km an hour on water as low as 10cm through a canyon. This included a few 360's at high speed, and missing canyon rocks by inches. After skydiving, it felt like a Disney ride. If that wasn't enough, we took a helicopter ride thru the canyon to get to the start of our white water rafting - level 3 and 4 rapids and no one fell out of the boat. All this before dinner time.
Not a bad day's work, eh?
What did YOU do today?