Adventure: the pursuit of life.
-Daniel Roy Wiarda

first off, just wanted to wish boyfriend the happiest belated birthday!!! hope you had fun this weekend!!=). and what was so fun? hehe yay we finally went skydiving! i'll post pics that the camera guy took of us later. but it was so awesome!!!!! just the feeling of freefall, i can't describe..it's like..hmm..like whoa? haha, i don't know i just felt like i was flying for those few moments. although my mouth was super dry after b/c the wind sucked out all my saliva. but for some reason i think right when i opened my mouth to scream all the saliva in my mouth flew out or something. b/c when we landed i touched a part of my cheek and there was a wet spot! ha, so must've been the saliva right? yah gross okay fine, but i thought it was funny!

it was crazy though and it just happened so fast. we're up in the plane, the pilot starts ringing some bell and then all of our tandem instructors start saying "10, 10" and tell us to sit on their laps while they strap us in. i'm guessing the 10 was 10,000 feet? b/c we were suppose to jump at 13000. so they open the hatch/door and i see boyfriend (haha who's instructor was way smaller than him that it looked like lou could crush him when he had to sit on him to strap up=P). anyways, yah i see boyfriend jump out and i'm like oh my goooooooosh. then i get tapped by instructor matt "belle, you ready?" i have to squat right at the door, and dude that in itself was crazy. my toes are hanging off the edge of the plane and i'm just looking at all the scenery below, then...whoosh..we jump!

the freefall was uber cool and once the parachute deployed it was all smooth sailing=). just looking at san diego below i was like, ooh a topo map (okay that's the dorky engineer in me). then instructor dude starts spinning us and going side to side screaming yeaaaaaaaaaah. haha and while i did enjoy it b/c this is one of those lifetime experiences..my stomach started jumping. but i didn't tell him to stop, b/c hel-looo when can i ever do this again? and the landing was cool. such a good feeling, especially when you see your friends down below laughing with you about the good times! so yes, i must thank all those who came out to celebrate louie boy's birthday to jump for the adventure, rid the fear of heights & to cheer and enjoy the day. thanks guys, y'all are wonderful!!!! it couldn't have been a better day=). our friends are awesome aren't they?

we also got to see cat and caren later that night at yardhouse..heheh and then they took as to one of the local bars, star bar, aka the "auntie panties" bar..haha. so funny seeing these older filipino lady bartenders. and then of course we had to grace extraordinary dessert with our presence in sd yet again=P. man those desserts are soooo rich, but so good. i still think we all could've shared one and had our fill. but we're all dessert lovers, (with the exception of boyfriend, boo!..haha jk!) so we like to have our own!

so this morning on the way to work me & daddy were exchanging conversation:

dad: so what did you do this weekend?
(i didn't tell my parents i went skydiving b/c i knew they'd be like nooooooo! so i opted to tell them when the pics and video came in)
me: it was good, umm i jumped out of a plane!
dad: oh with the parachute?
me: yeah (thinking, whoa he doesn't mind?)
dad: did you hear about that irwin guy, he died!
(i'm thinking, uhhh i just told you i JUMPED out of a PLANE! and you change subjects so easily? btw, rip mr.irwin, you were one crazy yet passionate guy)
me: yeah that was so sad.
(we get to work and i want to show my dad the skydiving certificate since he doesn't seem to mind)
me: look dad! (all excited now b/c dad's cool about it)
dad: what? you went skydiving!!!
me: umm, yeah i just told you that in the car!
dad: but i just thought you were joking!
me: no way, i wouldn't kid about that. (thinking, uh-oh here comes the lecture)
dad: oh, okay make a copy of this so that i can show your mom.

and i'm just in awe that he was so calm about it. ha, we'll see after work if he's still cool about it=P. so moral of my story is that i should just tell them now when i do something like that and not be scared of the reaction. b/c when i was signing my life away w/ those release forms i did feel guilty that i didn't tell them beforehand. lucky everything turned out alright=)

happy belated birthday again boyfriend..wow 2-7!!