Crazy heart…Crazy Idea…Crazy Dream…
07 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
in Adventure, Around You, Entertainment, Fun, Place Information Tags: Adventure, Sky Diving, Thrill
Where shall i start to tell this crazy story… An Awesome free fall twisted ride once in a life time experience. Never in my my life time I thought I would dare to try this. Every time Manish spoke about it , I said are you crazy your life is very precious to me and stopped him from thinking about it.He always wanted me to try it with him, and with a hope that some day I will waited so long.
Just the previous night at a get-together , we were discussing about this with our friends. Next day morning I was just browsing through online, and came across a video of my friend trying this crazy fall. After seeing that I said to Manish, Lets go for it. First he thought I was joking, when I said what now you don’t want to try when I am ready, he was like stop kidding (with a surprised face). I said I no kidding, you better check for the place before I change my mind 
It was Monday morning, as it was a labor day holiday we had long weekend. Hoping we could find some place close by, searched on Google and we found this amazing place. Called up to find if we can book for two. On the other side of the phone she said we are running full, but I can try to squeeze you in , how about 1. We said cool we will be there. Best part was we planned, decided and found out everything within an hour (this is called instant planning 
). It was an hour drive from our place luckily we had some time in our hand (with all excitement we missed out minute details hehehe )…
We reached there by 12:30, the drive to the place was awesome. When we reached there we could see people waiting at the picnic area, next to it was a small shed where they were organizing the bag pack for the next flyer. My heart racing fast and butterflies flying in my stomach we entered the office. She asked us to weight as their was already someone taking the video training. Every time we asked her for the details she said first you take the video training and than we shall talk about everything.
After 15mins of wait, we were watching the training video, the video was educational, it spoke about our safety, what to do when we are up their how to stretch our hands, legs, and smile it was a 15 min video.
Ooops I spoke about everything but I forgot to mention what it is all about im talking about sky diving yup you heard it right skydiving from 7000ft , sounds crazy haaaa !! it was..;)
After the training video we filled in all the forms, signed witness for each other , when I was filling out the form, it had so many legal entities stating like I’m taking this at my own risk and will not held responsible for any loss of life or death. I was like OMG I am not doing it… Manish was like come on we have come all this way and see all these people are falling from the sky they look so happy and sound safe lets do it…. hmmm sounded so funny hehehe.. some how I signed all the forms and we were set. She asked us what would you like to do today, 10,000 ft ,7000 ft, 4000ft. It was like what would you like have today vanilla, strawberry or banana heheheheh..Without any pause we said 7000ft . After a wait of 45 mins our turn came.
We got suits to wear, and the staff their geared us up with all the equipments. At that moment I dint feel anything. I was like ok lets try and see how it goes.. Once we were ready they took us in a truck to nearby airport, from where we boarded a small jet which caries 4 people. I and Manish had instructor’s of our own who were tied to us, so that when we fall, we have our life guard with us , well that made us feel a little safe but still the heart was saying you crazy idiot what are you doing hehehe….
The jet was so small, the plane started when we reached at around 4000 ft I looked around it was so beautiful, but when 7000 ft came up and the pilot opened the door, I was like O……….. !!! what the H?…!!! Manish was the first one to try, just as he took his steps out, my instructor said you are next, i said no way, he said Oops you are too late for that.. My first steps out side the plane wow heavy wind, my instructor kept saying keep your legs on the board I’m like I cannot , he is like you got to.. some how i managed and just before i could blink I am out. Those 15 secs of free fall Wow I couldn’t feel my heart beat all I could hear was Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!! it was crazy… Once the parachute was out we were a little stable and that was fun. Could see all around , and I should tell you it looks awesome,just one song coming into my mind- “I believe I can Fly, I believe I can touch the sky…..” wow amazing view better than the one you see from an airplane. Felt like a bird.
I also tried gearing the parachute my trainer showed me a few moves it was fun, after a swirl in the sky, time for landing. Funny part was for landing we have to bring our legs up to the knees and straighten them, when my instructor asked me to do that I shouted O shoot I’m not able to do it now what.. hehehe.. he was like no no you can try try .. luckily had a safe landing, as soon as we got to land i kissed the grass and said I am safe
Always heard sky is falling sky is falling in the movies , this time I was falling from the sky it was amazing… I am glad my sweet heart pulled me into trying this crazy Wild Ride. A Transcending Reality Awesome… Love it The best moment of life… and i got my certificate too Thrilling Dream Came true…
Info – Place we did it from http://www.funskydiving.com
Cost per person – 195 for the jump + (your choice of video)
Tip – Do not eat much before the jump, give a gap of atleast 2 hours.
Just enjoy and keep smiling
Fun Filled Weekend – Hershey’s Park
30 Aug 2010 1 Comment
in Fun, Place Information Tags: Amusement Park, Hersheys Park, Thrill
Needed some thrill in life, what more can be thrilling and fun than a visit to the amusement park. It was the last weekend of August we planned up to spend it with little thrill and fun by visiting the famous Hershey’s Park.
Heard lot about the park located near the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Pennsylvania which was once the capital of America in 1787. Hershey’s park is huge along with amusement park it has water park and adjacent to park we have Zoo America and Hershey’s Chocolate World. The park area covers over 110 acres of land and has more than 60 rides and attractions in it.
Admissions to Hershey Park includes entry to Zoo America. The admission ticket at the counter is $52. But we bought the tickets from Giant Food stores located near the Park,we got it for $41 cool isn’t it
The park opens at 10:00 A.M and closes by 10:00 P.M, we were there by 10:30 
a.m. We were expecting since its early morning there would not be much crowd. But it turned out to be opposite so many people on a regular weekend what would be the scene when its a long weekend. Wow, seeing the crowd we knew it, long lines for the rides. But who cares we just wanted to have fun so be it with the long lines .
As soon as we entered the park we could smell the pop corn,lemonade, feel the fun, excitement all around. We have rides for all ages, from a toddler to an adult, everyone can enjoy their share of fun. We picked up the map and started planning which rides to start with. The rides are rated from 1 to 5, higher the number aggressive thrilling the ride will be.
For the day we could manage to complete just few thrilled rides. I could 
manage just one high rated ride the Storm Runner, wow what a ride. Those 60 secs my heart rate went so high ,I could feel butterflies flying in my stomach. Awesome ride it was(reason why i could do just one ride ) ..For rest of the day I enjoyed the Mild thrill ride and my dear hubby along with our friends enjoyed all the thrilled rides.
Since we planned just for a day , we could manage to do just the amusement park. Hershey’s water park has wonderful water rides different from the other parks. We missed the water park, by the time we reached there, it was closed for the day. Guess the water park closes early by 6:00 p.m. At that moment we were thinking we should have done the water park first hmmm.. missed it. Well next time 
As we had a long drive back we had to start early so we opted to visit the chocolate factory along with water park in our next visit:).
A Fun filled thrilling day came to an end. Wow what a day !!! A Day to remember. All exhausted with good thrilling memories we headed back home
Tips : Buy the tickets from Giant Food Store works out cheap.
Plan ahead. You need at least two days to enjoy the park completely.
Carry an extra pair of clothes. Carry Swim suit for water park.
You can carry any food items inside the park. If you are a vegetarian we have many options inside the park , we have subway, taco bell, pizzeria and many more.
Finally don’t forget to enjoy and have loads of fun
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