Today was epic. Erin and I both crossed off skydiving from our bucket lists and it was great! We dove from 15,000 ft (Mt. Cook is 12,000 ft) which meant 60 seconds of freefall. It felt like so much less than that. They even gave us oxygen in the plane for the last 3,000 feet of the ascent. In the plane with us for our jump were, Erin and I, our 2 tantum jumpers, our 2 photographer jumpers and a 13 year old kid from England on holiday with his family (oldest of 4 kids) who was getting to jump as a present for his birthday (and also his tandum jumper). The 13 year old was the first out of the plane, he had guts that's for sure. Next was me (Scott), now how can I chicken out after that kid just went out with a smile? After that Erin jumped out and all of us came flying toward the earth. It was awesome. We got tons of photos, and a great video of the whole thing but I'll probably have to wait until later to upload it since internet here is pretty expensive.
