Marlin's Birthday Adventure

Marlin invited me to celebrate his birthday this year by doing a big adventure. Cut to the chase...we skydived!

Click here for the video of my dive. (Marlin's video to come if approved)

It was hazy from the Canada forest fires but it was cool and dry. The skydive is located in Baldwin, Wisconsin which is just 45 minutes from the Twin Cities.

We had kind of a long wait for our turn but we got to watch the take off and return of many types of skydives. It was interesting and kind of comforting at the same time.

I have actually skydived before. Back in 2014 while in Hawaii. That blog post is here.

Skydiving

The adventures continue non-stop. We met up with Todd and Julia to skydiver from Pacific Skydiving on the North Shore. Gracie had been skydiving 3 or 4 times already. Todd has parachuted for work (Army) but not skydived like this. Was definitely first time for Julia and me.

While we were waiting to skydive, Jenny went to the beach to swim and relax. We had to wait for quite a while. There was a group of tourists that arrived on a bus. Apparently they had done all their paperwork on the ride up. You have to initial about hundred (not kidding) different waivers on seven pages.

We met Jenny at the beach.

 Julia and Todd had to leave to pick up Megan from school. Gracie, Jenny and I went to Hali'eva for sushi lunch. Then we drove out to a park on the far north west point of Oahu. We were to hike to a bird sanctuary but it was really far and we gave it up. I was pretty exhausted. We did see a lot of whale spouts and may have even seen an orca.