Happy Christmas everybody from the very hot city of Santiago, Chile. It felt very strange celebrating christmas in shorts, t-shirts and factor 30 sunscreen - keeping alcohol chilled whilst sat around the pool is very difficult but I tried my best. I had a great day with the rest of my group, santa had left us all presents under the tree - we even had stockings full of sweets to nibble upon whilst we waited for lunch. Lunch was a variety of pasta and rice salads served alongside the roast meat (obviously not for me) and was delicious. Needless to say after 14 hours of continual drinking we were all feeling a little merry. The photos and video evidence (especially of the wonderful dance routines) make compulsive viewing - even if they are totally embarassing but all are testament to the amazing atmosphere of the day. Even better the hangovers were very mild on boxing day!
I am currently in Pucon - the Lake District area of Chile, the scenery is fantastic - especially if you view it from above in a tiny plane. What was I doing in a tiny plane I hear you ask. Well as a special birthday gift to myself, I thought they could be no better way to mark the passage of time than to jump out of a plane. Yes I have done a SkyDive!!!!!!!
What an utterly fantastic experience. I jumped at 9000 feeet and freefell for over 40 seconds. There are very few words I can use to describe how amazing it was. (The words I want to use come under the term "flowery language") Obviously this is not me in the photo - ours haven´t been uploaded yet but this is Peter the skydive master whom I did my tandem jump with. (Just pretend the girl is me). I even managed a perfect landing which was remarkable as I couldn´t really stand up for 10 minutes after the dive ended. I was literally floating on air. To anyone thinking of doing this - go for it. It is the best experience of my life.
4 comments:
anyone who jumps out of a plane voluntarily must be slightly mad but well done anyway.
Glad you had a good christmas love it sounds ideal,hot,sunny and plenty of liquid refreshment.Hope you have a great New Year.
all ourlove as always
happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday Miss zoe happy birthday to you!!!!!!!well missus you certainly have embraced the travel spirit and the next year of your young 30's good on ye!! have a lovely day and best of luck for 2007. x
Happy Birthday Louie, glad to see you have taken the plunge...lol makes my 5 sec freefall look a bit sad :(
Whats next? you have had trial by water trial by air trial by earth (sand)...........i guess its trial by FIRE so good luck with the firewalking!!
Well done you! We'll def have to meet up very soon after you return, and you can use 'flowery language' to describe what it was like. (I doubt I'll ever take the plunge myself!) Wow.
Jx
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