Charlie’s Haus

Skydiving was pretty fricken awesome.  I thought I would be more nervous about it once the time drew closer, but for some reason, I didnt get nervous at all.  Even during the 15 minute climb up to 14,000 feet.  My instructor joked around with me a bit and that helped lighten the mood too.  Even when the door opened and it was our turn, it ended up being easy to jump out of the plane.  The first 2 or 3 thousand feet were laced with hail (we were jumping with impending rain storms around us).  That felt a little hurty on the face, but it wasnt too bad really.  After that until 5500 feet it was smooth sailing.  During the freefall, he spun me around etc…it was pretty cool.  Every few seconds he would show me how high we were, and at 5500ft it was my job to pull the shoot.  I did it and BAM! it pulls hard on you!  You go from deafness with the wind to almost absolute silence.  It was almost a tranquil feeling.  He then let me steer for a bit and we did some acrobatics that were pretty fun.  He took back over when we came in for a landing though and set us down in the small area in front of the observation deck instead of the field where the others came down (yeah we were showing off…or I guess he was..lol).  As soon as your back on the ground, you immediately want to go again.  I can see why people love it so much.  If it wasnt so expensive to get a license I would totally do it.  After you get your license its only like $35-40 to jump which isnt bad at all, but getting that far is around $2500 they said.  It was a good time and as soon as I get the pics Ill post them.

The bachelor party was pretty fun, we went to some kind of scanky strip clubs though…not my cup of tea to begin with though.  Ended up being an expensive night with all the taxi’s, but the bachelor had fun, thats all that matters.

I feel a little bad though because I was so tired on Sunday at Haidens birthday party since I didnt get much sleep.  I wasnt in much of a socializing mood.  He got lots of presents though and I got to see my little sister and my grandma too.  It was a good time despite being so tired. 

Got another busy week ahead of us.  It is graduation season after all.  Nothing quite as exciting as jumping out of a perfectly fine airplane though =D

I know…a little late, but my Dad and I did awesome fishing especially considering the weather. I woke up Saturday morning to 30mph winds. That pretty much ruled out anyplace we wanted to fish. I mean even the river in Oshkosh had white caps on it. Dad at the last minute thought of some little channels on winnebago that we could hit. It was windy, but very manageable. Neither one of us expected to catch anything really, but were we wrong! In the 4 or so hours we were out, we ended up with 19 fish! For the longest time we went back and forth as to who caught the most fish (which is pretty cool considering my Dad ALWAYS outfishes me…though some of that is because he is in the front of the boat), but at the end of the day, my dad went up 3 or 4 fish. He didnt get those until the last 20 minutes too, so it was pretty close all day. It was fun. None of the fish had any size, they were all mostly in the 14″ range, but considering we didnt expect any fish with the wind and the temp drop, there were no complaints.

Moving grandma went well. It really didnt take all that long since we had so many people helping. After 3 or so hours, it was all done. Not bad.

Today I took down the last big pine tree in our back yard. With a lot of luck and very little skill, it fell perfectly (actually to the side of where I wanted it to, but it ended up being a better spot). I got it all taken care of except like 8 feet of trunk…I ran out of gas. I was tired and hungry so I decided that I will finish it later and called it a night.

This weekend with any luck I will be skydiving. Hopefully the weather is nice on Saturday and we can go…Im nervous and excited at the same time, but its something I have always wanted to do.

Well thats all for now….Peace!