USA

We all woke up early in the morning as we pulled into our first port, Honolulu Hawai'i! When we walked up to the deck, the first thing we saw was everyone on their cell phones. It was so nice to finally get to talk to someone and see land after I think 10 days at sea? We were up for sunrise which was beautiful. Its pretty much indescribable to pull into a port at sunrise.

It took forever to get off the ship. They didn't dismiss in any order so everyone just rushed the stairwell to try and get off. We only had the better part of a day to see Hawaii and it was clear that no one wanted to waste a single minute. We finally got off and had a few hours to kill before the van came to pick us up to go skydiving so Kate Sam and I walked ot the shore to see the beach. Honolulu is a lot like any american city. The beaches are unbelievable! The water is turquoise and the sand is white and there are mountains everywhere and it is just beautiful. The whole atmosphere is just relaxing. We sent some postcards home, bought some souveniers and then walked up and down the beach for a while. Then we caught a cab back with some old guy with a dent in his hair who sang us hawaiian songs..one particularly nice one about marijuana and how everyone should be able to smoke it freely because its God's gift. Thankfully Sam caught most of the trip on video.

We met up with a group of kids and caught a van to Pacific SKydiving on the North Shore. We ended up having to wait a good 5 hours to jump because they had booked almost 100 sas kids to jump that day with only 5 professionals on hand to jump us. So we ate hot dogs and watched other peoples videos and even played some asshole in the sun on the lawn. Finally, 3 planes to go Sam and I and this kid Dave got to go up. They put you in your harness and take you out to the plane on this golf cart. You get out and they run through real quickly what you should do and then you climb in this tiny plane with your videographer and your tandem guy. You sit on these 2 metal beams and they harness you up. You fly up and its beautiful and then terrifying when you realize your about to fling yourself out of this plane. Its even worse when you find you are sitting closest ot the door and therefore have to go first!! My guy, George, inches us up towards the door and grabs onto the doorway. As soon as I look out, I feel like I have my head out a car window going 120 miles per hour. I started to scream "Oh my GOooo..." and then he jumped!! We went falling outta this plane into the sky and you couldnt distinguish up from down and there was so much wind you couldnt even breathe let alone control your face when you realize the videographer is in front of you with a camera waiting for you to smile! You do your best and youre just falling and faling and spinning around and you cant see anything but clouds and sky...strangely enough thought you dont feel the rollercoaster drop or anything. Then he pulls the shoot and you get yanked up in the air so high so fast you definately feel like you are going to lose a leg to the harness! Then before you know it, the extreme loudness of the falling is gone and its silent. Absoutely SILENT. You look down and you are suspended above the ocean and the island and it is one of the most beautiful things. just kept saying "OMG" cuz it was literally the most beautiful place!

You float around up there for awhile...we got to see a rainbow and a breathtaking sunset! It's like I was hanging in the middle of a painting! Then you start to spin down and you land in a field next to the building we took off from and its just thrilling. I was so giddy and so happy! It was definately one of the best things I got to do and what better way to start out my trip than to fling myself out of an airplane at 14,000 feet!?