I must be crazy .....

I'm actually thinking of jumping out of a plane. While it's in the air. Really, really high up in the air.

Sky-diving is something that I always wanted to try when I was younger. But then I had kids and it just lost its appeal. (Or maybe I was just too lazy to write my will.) But now I've been talking to somebody who took his first jump a couple years ago and he has since done 160 jumps! He told me what a rush it was. He said that you don't really have the sensation of falling because there is a constant strong wind on you - kinda like what it would feel like if you stuck your entire body out of your car window as it travelled down the highway at 120km/hr. (Although he did say "don't look down - look at the horizon!") For first timers, there are 2 instructors holding on to your harness, and once you deploy your parachute, they let go. And then there's a guy on the ground who is communicating with you through an earpiece who tells you how to steer the parachute so you land in the right place.

Sounds easy, right? I think that the hardest part would be sitting in the airplane as you wait to reach altitude for the jump. I might need a diaper for this! My kids think I should try it (but to put that in perspective, they'd also think it was cool if I climbed Mt Everest). Stay tuned ... I have a few more weeks of summer to think about it ...