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Alright my lovelies - happy valentines day!!
so nice to hear all you messages - thought you be proud shell!!.. and thanks for the email parents!! sorry to hear your ill mum - and sorry to hear it was dad's fault!! (naughty daddy sharing your flu)!!!
we're now in the north island and driven up from Wellington to Lake Taupo -its been a bit exciting.... guess what we did yesterday... SKYDIVED!!!! (So sorry mum!!)
it was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and pretty much the most scared ive ever ever been!! terrified doesn't come close!
we drove into Taupo and the girls wanted to do it so we went to basically check out the prices... hour later we were in the plane!! it was the cheapest place in the whole of NZ so thought.. if im ever guna do it!
we got all kitted out and was perfect number as we all fitted into 1 plane. it was obvioulsy a tantom dive and our blokes were really funny... they knew how scared i was so all the way i kept getting... from nosh's bloke to mine.. so you get your licence after this!?! and.. woow mate... your 2nd jump you excited!
then mine unclipped a wire and kepts waving it going...woooow..woooow infront of me!! quite amusing!
anyway i was the last to jump so had to watch Nikki then Nosh jump before me... ok if you remember the old McDonalds advert.. Nuggets away... it was just like that... but watching a best mates jump out of a plane!!
so basically that just set me off having full scale panic attack!!
was trying to hold on to the plane and yelling no no no and thrashing me legs (the poor bloke i was attached to)!!
he wasn't realy meant to jump when i was doing it but just thought stuff it! it is the most scary scary scary thing in the whole world!!
can't even describe how horrible the first 2 seconds were! but after 5 seconds - when you've stopped spinning out of control - you open your arms and just freefall straight down and that is just emense!!! the views were breathtaking and we had perfect clear day and did it over the lake and it was just fantastic!
we did the 1200 feet jump - so you free fall for 45 seconds (which goes sooo fast) then at 5000 feet you open the parachute and just fly up in the air (again lots of screaming then!!) and then sail down!! that is the best bit.. just gorgeous views and doesn't feel like your going fast at all!
we did some crazy spins and turns too!! then we landed (on our bums!)
.. well thats whats meant to happen... Nikki's jump however was little different - her parachute didnt' actually open! it fell to the floor and they started spinning out of control.. its ok though - she's still here... we picked up most of her ...! kidding - eventually her emerancy paracute opened. was a bit scary though but my bloke didn't tell me till we landed.
we have photos but not sure they will load on but even better... have it all on DVD!! its so fully! and you get to choose your music so bit of blur .. Woo Hoo going on!!!
needless to say last night involved lots of wine!!!
apart from that, we looked around Wellington a bit which was nice and we've been ruffin it again! only issue with the DVD.. we slept in field night before so obviuolsy no showers or anything so not at my best in it.. well also hard to look attractive when your cheeks are half a foot aside from the rest of your face!!
anyway we've been round Taupo today (had slight drama with my camera. last night we were camping by a lake and a Canadian girl who had been to the Back Door in the Soo - (bec etc will understand!) came and sat with us then a german bloke who took a photo for us - so nosh put my camera in her bag safely.. but then forgot..so when to get it out today and wasn't in my bag where it aways is... hour later and the entire contence of grandma is on the street and we were convince the canadian had stollen it .. nosh pulls it out her bag!
anyway after I KILLED HER!! its all fine!!
hope your all well guys... missing you all... parents im posting the DVD home so you can have a good laugh.. also posting Nosh's so dad can you see if you can copy it .. also can't see the bit in mine where we actually jump (due to the spack attack i was throwing!) so u can see it on nosh's!!
love to you all
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