My Darling Mother Did It!

She jumped out of a plane.

With a parachute and a guy attached.

He was the jump master.

The day was a hundred times better than the 

last time she was scheduled to jump.

This time it was in the mid eighties

and the humidity was much

lower.

Thankfully.

Not everything about the flight was 

enjoyable.

While Mom really enjoyed the view

she was quite upset in the stomach

when they got back to the ground.

I hear this is fairly common and was probably made

worse by the fact that it was late afternoon

and she hadn't eaten anything since breakfast.

Or, could have just been the fact that when the 

time came to leave the plane Mom's hand

got all rebellious on her and 

refused to let go of the plane.

Remember the guy who was 

attached to her?

He pried her hand from the plane.

She was jumping.

And that was that.

The landing was not picture perfect but

since no one got hurt it was just fine.

We'll take it.

These were taken before the dive.

This is Mom's jumpmaster.

He was a very nice man

who must have nerves of steel.

Sure, he looks nice...and all...until you don't let go of the plane. :-)

For some reason Mom wanted her photo taken with her grandchildren.

Not her daughter....????

 Thumbs up!

All thumbs up!!

 So excited!

Gotta love the bonnet.

 This is the plane....

 Five people go up...

Five people come down.....

One in the plane.

Shelly was the other jumper in Mom's plane.

She had also planned to jump on our original 

day but wasn't able to either.

I have to tell you that while Mom's experience did not 

leave her wanting to do it again

Shelly felt very differently.

She was radiant when we met up in the training 

trailer for post flight stuff.

I see more jumps in Shelly's future.

And they are off.

A small crowd had gathered waiting anxiously until the representative from 

the parachute club came to escort us to the landing zone.

We heard the plane and began looking for it.

Of course it was in a spot where looking at it 

also gave you a direct view of the sun.

After a bit someone observed 

the humor of this view and asked if 

we were all worshiping.

Pretty soon we heard the tell tale stop of the plane's engine.

That is the sign that four of the five on board were leaving the plane and

 would be appearing shortly.

This was what we saw......

 A queasy but relieved Mom.

I'm proud to be her daughter.

Now, hopefully, she'll limit her adventures to mission

trips where she "just" eats scary stuff and uses

unusual transportation.... on the ground.

Of course, In El Salvador they had armed guards...

and not for the fun of it.

Good thing we know that God is in control and won't let 

Mom go to Heaven until it is her time to go.

She seems to have a very adventurous spirit.

Bet her guardian angel is exhausted!!

LOL

Our friends, 

Emma and Joseph each enjoyed their second dives on this day, as well.

I happened to have company from out of town who were 

sweet enough to come out to the airfield with us.  They had 

been so patient and so 

we didn't stay for Emma and Joseph's jump.

That out of town company?

A bloggy friend from New York and some of her family and friends.

I'm dying to tell you all about it but this post 

is already long enough. 

It will just have to wait and make for another post.

Now it is feeling quite late after this very busy weekend

and start to this new week.

Hope you have enjoyed this adventure vicariously.

It was enough for me.

I still have no desire to Skydive.