Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Skydiving!

One of my best friends decided to commemorate her 30th birthday by jumping out of a plane, and asked if I'd join her. Some of the girls asked to see pictures, so here it is...this is what it looks like to fly 13,500 feet up in the air and then drop out of a plane at 120 mph. What an amazing experience!





(Yup, we were upside down!)

Apparently you're meant to fall at 120 mph when skydiving, but because there were two of us, and thus we weighed more, we started dropping at about 200 mph. After a bit of upside-down falling, you'll see the world's tiniest parachute open up. This was to slow us down to 120 mph.






2 comments:

Rada said...

omg Melisa this is so awesome and i'm sooo jealous/impressed!

Melisa K. said...

Thanks, Rada! It was so much fun! Scary...but like I told you, often the scariest experiences are the most meaningful...