I CAN'T wait to go to New Zealand!!! Haha, guess what I just did? I went to google the following: "skydiving in New Zealand scary?". This is going to be a honeymoon of heart-stopping moments indeed! How about 360deg turns at 'disorientating speeds' on a jetboat? Or black water rafting through a staglamite cave with giant grasshoppers, giant spiders, 2metre-long eels and nary a source of light except for the glow coming from erm...glow worms on the roof of the caves? And add on the one I may consider the ultimatum, skydiving. All these in winter temperatures! Lalalala!
Check this out as how skydiving was described on the web:
"It takes a certain kind of person to step out of an aircraft at 15,000 feet into thin air. It takes courage. The fact you are harnessed by space age materials to an experienced qualified Jumpmaster makes little difference. You step out that aircraft door and for some 60 seconds you plummet towards the ground at 200 kph. Terminal Velocity. The fact that your Jumpmaster will deploy the reinforced tandem canopy for you makes little difference. Nor the fact that it has been packed by a qualified parachute packer, nor the fact that you are equipped with a reserve chute, with a cybernetic activation system make any difference.
The first skydive is a scary thing. You can expect sensory overload as your mind/soul/body fight against every natural self preservatory urge.
The impact on your life that the act you are now contemplating will have cannot be overstated. The personal challenge is immense. Immense, because the only thing preventing you from enjoying this, one of the most primal life shaping experiences, is your own mind. You must choose. To go through life able to say 'yes, I did it', or to go through life knowing that you had the opportunity, but you turned it down and walked away from becoming the complete person you could have been."
*Woah hahaha...the description truly sounds like a sermon...*
I CAN"T WAIT!!!