When my daughter bungee-jumped in 2018 during her internship in Cape Town, South Africa, she didn't tell me before. I knew that she had the opportunity, but she had mentioned that it was pretty expensive and she probably wouldn't do it. Well, her intention was to put me at ease and not worry about her, so she simply sent me a casual text after the deed, "just bungee-jumped off a bridge".
This time it wasn't quite as simple - and I did worry, but not as much as I thought I would.
She wanted to check off another item on her "to do"-list - jump out of a plane. The Geek had done that while he still went to university in Aachen. He just hopped on his bicycle, rode over to Belgium (Aachen borders both the Netherlands and Belgium) to a skydiving company and did his tandem jump. He was eager to do it again. Me - not so much. I prefered to watch from solid ground.
We drove down to the tiny airport in Novato where they had a booking with Skydive Golden Gate. After an introductory video and the signing of forms, their highly professional instructors got them ready.
I did read the warning on the back...
Here are the two people who mean the world to me, ready to get on a plane in order to jump out of it. I was very glad that they couldn't do it alone!
And then they were off!
It took about 15 minutes of the plane to get to the required height. They flew over the entire San Francisco Bay and had a great view of the city and the Golden Gate. The Geek was the first to jump and then it was Kaefer's turn to get ready.
She had opted for the photos and video package, and I'm very glad that she did.
Falling from the sky...
She really enjoyed it and thought it was very soon that the parachute opened and the fall was slowed.
You can see that she really enjoyed this. She was allowed to steer the parachute, so she took full advantage and did spirals just to lengthen the flight.
If you want to see her thrilling freefall, here's the short video of it:
Here she is back on stable ground, happy as a clam.
I was happy for both of them, and especially to have them back.
Looking at the little daredevil she had been, I really shouldn't be surprised about her "adventures"!
Great faces to share with Nicole's Friday Face Off, don't you think?
