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Wednesday 3rd November - Base, Taupo (Matt's 1st blog!!! ............About bloody time)
We left Waitomo this morning at 10!!! Happy for a lay in!! We then had a 2 hour journey through the back roads to Taupo and Tongariro National Park this is where the filming of Lord of the Rings was set in the mountains of Na-ru-hoe-e (Mount Doom).
As soon as we arrived in Taupo we were picked up by the skydiving minibus!! By this time i was s***ting myself just by the thought of what we were about to do!! On the way we had to fill in the forms basically sign our lives away incase anything happened!
When we arrived we had to sit and watch two dvds and then off we went to get kitted up and meet our jump partners and away we went onto probably the smallest and most cramped plane we were every going to get on!!! It took roughly 15 long minutes to reach 12000ft, the shutter slide up and there was no looking back!!! The wind up there was freezing cold but that was the least of my worries as i looked down above the clouds.
The plane took 4 of us up including each partner and cameraman. Hayley was second out the door.....Gone in seconds!! Here we go, there i was about to go for it!!!!
It was amazing to be honest when we all landed everyone had the biggest grins on there face, everyone cuddling except Hayley, she was sat on the floor as white as a sheet : ). We then sat in the viewing room to watch the dvd they made for us which looks amazing!!
That night we went to do a quiz night at the local pub! And guess what we won.......................................... Sweet fa, getting 19 out of 50 i think we got the wooden spoon!!
Tomorrow we r back on the road again to a place called River Valley, which is where the white water rafting will take place so wish us good luck!!
Adios
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