Welcome to the Sky
21/04/2008I’ve wanted to go skydiving for a long time, out of the blue I told Yohana, “Let’s go Skydiving on Friday!” She agreed. That weekend I had Fri-Mon off so the idea couldn’t of come at a better time.
About twenty minutes into the research phase of looking for a possible sky dive facility I found Skydive Perris (No I’m not getting paid if you click on their link. Although, that would be nice… cough cough…☺). They were my top choice just because of their track record, professional looking company, and they are one of three schools in the United States to adhere to a drug-testing program for instructors, pilots, and mechanics! Interesting isn’t it? Only three schools in the United States, WOW!
Anywhooo! We arrived, checked in, did all the paperwork and legal matters, and got video taped saying that we understood what we signed and todays date…haha sounds intense but stuff happens right?
After all of that, we were waiting in their little lounge area watching the previous skydivers maneuver into safe landings. They called our names! We were next! AAAAH!
We went into a storage-like room with suits and someone came up to me and said, “Welcome to Skydive Perris, my name is J.C. I’m your instructor”. He handed me a suit, after suiting up and strapping into the skydive gear, J.C. started giving me special instructions and took me into a cut out plane to show how we would exit since we were both above 6′ 1″ in height 
As we were walking towards the loading zone we saw the plane arriving and getting ready to drop us off at thirteen thousand feet. At this point, I already had a permanent smile on my face. I wasn’t scared, I was just excited and wanted to jump!
